The college has visual communication design department, environmental design department, modeling design department and basic department, and has eight majors and professional directions, including graphic design, modern digital media design, visual image design, environmental design, product design, fashion design and marketing, fashion performance and image design, with more than 2,500 undergraduates. The Art Design Experimental Center jointly established by the School of Design and the Academy of Fine Arts was awarded as the Hubei Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center. For a long time, the teachers and students of the college have made great achievements in extracurricular innovation, winning the first prize in the Third National College Students' Advertising Art Competition, the silver prize in the Eighth National Art Festival College Students' Painting Design Exhibition, and the bronze prize in the Ninth National College Students' Platinum Creative Design Competition.

The faculty headed by Professor Wang Xinyao, the president, is full of youthful vigor and innovative spirit. While strengthening the classroom teaching, the college invites influential experts and scholars from home and abroad to enter the campus to open a second classroom for students, so as to improve students' artistic appreciation, artistic sensibility and artistic innovation ability. Xu Yongmin, Leng Jun and Chen Shun 'an, influential experts in the art world, are invited as visiting professors. Zhou Shaohua, a famous painter, wrote a name for the museum and served as a visiting professor. The college has carried out extensive foreign exchanges and established inter-school cooperative relations with many universities such as Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.

The School of Design will closely focus on Jianghan University's orientation of "application, innovation and internationalization", pay attention to the cultivation of students' professional basic skills, innovative spirit, practical ability and scientific attitude, take the cultivation of applied design talents as the goal, pay attention to the cultivation of innovative spirit and practical ability, and devote itself to cultivating artistic design talents with China cultural characteristics and international vision that meet the needs of the market economy, and realize the essential return of the university way.