The college began to recruit undergraduates from 1999, and consists of fine arts department, music department, dance department and radio and television art department. Since 20 13, there have been five undergraduate majors enrolled, including painting, environmental design, music performance, radio and television director, broadcasting and hosting, including oil painting, Chinese painting, calligraphy, interior design, exhibition design, vocal performance, piano performance, music education, film and television director and broadcasting host, with more than 2,400 undergraduates. At the same time, the college has a first-class master's degree program in fine arts, enrolling master's students in oil painting and China painting and calligraphy, and enrolling master's students in music course teaching theory, with the number of graduate students exceeding 100.
There are 92 faculty members and 75 full-time teachers, of which 70% are teachers with senior professional titles and doctoral and master's degrees. There are 2 provincial-level excellent courses and 7 school-level excellent courses, and teachers have won many school-level and provincial-level educational reform achievement awards. In the past ten years, teachers have published more than 50 monographs and presided over more than 0/00 provincial-level vertical and horizontal topics. A number of young and middle-aged academic backbones have emerged, and the overall academic strength of teachers has been continuously enhanced. At the same time, the school also hired Tsinghua University and other famous experts and scholars as distinguished professor and part-time masters. The college strengthens artistic creation with the educational mode of "famous teacher studio" and theoretical research in the form of "research institute". At present, there are more than ten research institutions, such as Liaoxi Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Research Center, Stone Carving Calligraphy Research Institute and Bohai Painting School Research Institute. The college also adheres to the reform of artistic talent training mode led by "innovation" and "practice", and students have won many domestic and foreign awards and design patents during their school days. The employment rate of students over the years is over 95%, and many graduates have become the backbone of famous domestic art companies and CCTV and other media. The college attaches importance to postgraduate entrance examination, and the postgraduate entrance examination rate is increasing year by year. The number of graduate students admitted to famous universities such as Peking University has surged. The college pays attention to the cultivation of graduate students, and requires the number of words in graduation thesis to be more than 30 thousand words. Everyone has to hold an exhibition and take exams, and the rate of graduate students getting doctoral degrees is also increasing year by year.
The new leadership of the College of Arts and Media is full of vigor and vitality. In view of the present situation of teachers and students in the college, the working concepts of "simplicity, professionalism, scientific research, dignity and health" and "internal strength, external image building, down-to-earth, beautiful and healthy" are put forward, and the working principles of "research drives projects, projects drive scientific research, and scientific research drives teaching" are put forward, emphasizing "seeking truth from facts" and "integration", which have been highly recognized and closely cooperated by all teachers and students. At present, the college is exploring ways to exchange international students with foreign universities, and it is expected to sign cooperation agreements with Britain, France, Japan and other countries.
Facing the future, the college will continue to inherit the tradition of running a school, innovate the educational model, give full play to the characteristics and advantages of disciplines, base itself on the whole province and look at the whole country, and cultivate more applied talents with solid theoretical knowledge and strong practical ability for the society.