The Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University is the second-level college of Shanghai University and the best one in Shanghai.
The college has five undergraduate majors, including painting, fine arts, sculpture, art design and architecture. Six teaching departments, such as Chinese painting department, oil painting department, sculpture department, art design department, historical theory department and architecture department, and the workshops of ceramics, glass, printmaking, multimedia and material experiments in Gong * * * Art Experiment Center undertake undergraduate teaching in the Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2000, the teaching-oriented "studio system" has been gradually implemented as the main means to achieve professional goals.
The Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University is an important platform for Shanghai's higher fine arts education to open up and communicate with the outside world. At present, the college has established inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with art colleges in Japan, the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Australia and other countries, which has promoted international cultural and artistic exchanges and development.