1, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Shanghai Conservatory of Music, referred to as Shangyin for short, is located in Shanghai and sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It is a full-time professional music (art) college founded by the Ministry of People, Culture and Tourism of China and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It is a national "double-class" construction university.

2. Shanghai Theatre Academy

Shanghai Theatre Academy, referred to as "STA", is located in Shanghai. It is an art college founded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Selected into the national postgraduate project of building a high-level university and the national key discipline project.

3. Shanghai Lida College

Shanghai Lida College is a for-profit private university, which focuses on management and art, with coordinated development of economy, engineering and medicine, and has a certain reputation in Shanghai and even the whole country. The school has seven secondary colleges: School of Finance and Economics, School of Media, School of Art and Design, School of Information, School of Nursing, School of Basic and Foreign Languages and School of Marxism.

4. Shanghai Visual Arts School

School of visual arts (Shanghai school of visual arts), located in Shanghai, was established in September 2005. It is a new comprehensive art undergraduate college with mixed ownership, with state-owned investment as the main body and other social forces and private funds at the same time.