Compared with Cheng Yi University, sanming university has a deeper history of environmental design. The teaching and enrollment unit of environmental design major in sanming university is sanming university Institute of Art and Design. Based on 1986, the former art department of Sanming Normal University was merged with 1999 to form a college, and in 2005, it began to recruit undergraduate majors. There are two undergraduate majors: fine arts and art design. Among them, art design has three professional directions: environmental design, visual communication and footwear design. Chengyi College of Jimei University was established in 2003.

Sanming University College of Art and Design has a strong faculty. The College of Art and Design has 49 faculty members and 38 full-time teachers, including 3 professors, 6 associate professors 1 person, 24 doctors1person and 24 masters. Teachers are mostly members of national first-class societies such as China Artists Association and provincial artists associations. In recent years, the College of Art and Design has paid close attention to teaching and scientific research, and paid attention to improving the overall quality and level of teachers. Teachers have been sent to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University of Technology and other national famous institutions of higher learning as visiting scholars or for further study. Teachers have achieved fruitful results in teaching, scientific research and artistic creation, presided over national art research projects 1, more than 20 provincial scientific research projects and educational reform projects, published more than 30 academic papers in national core journals and more than 100 papers in journals above the provincial level; Works of art have been selected in more than 80 international and national art competitions, 100 provincial art competitions, and nearly 40 kinds of books and periodicals have been compiled; Students' works of art have been selected in hundreds of national and provincial art competitions and won many awards.

Sanming university art design major was approved as a national major on July 20 10. 20 10 September cooperated with "University of Science and Technology of China" in Taiwan Province Province to recruit students majoring in interior decoration design.

In addition, Sanming University is a public undergraduate college with much lower tuition fees.