mission statement

Always making a point of fostering the students' innovation spirit and ability, the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, keeps expanding the students' horizon to improve their comprehensive quality, while strengthening teaching of fundamental major courses. At the Academy, great attention is paid to the studies of fine heritage of folk arts of all nationalities both at home and abroad. Also, attaching great importance to academic exchanges, the Academy keeps introducing and studying the latest foreign thoughts and methodology of fine arts and artistic design. It advocates the spirit of being precise in pursuing studies, relation theory to practice and seeking truth from fact, and stresses the need to suit design to lives, and the combination of design and craft manufacture, and that of art and science. Students are trained to acutely grasp the changing trend and pace of social and cultural life. The Academy strives to create lively academic atmosphere and fine education environment.

international role

Since 1956, the Academy has established friendly exchanges with over twenty overseas universities, including Tokyo Art University in Japan, the Art College of Chicago in the U.S., the School of Fine Arts of the University of Washington, The College of Art MIT, University of Art and Design Helsinki and so on. It has invited celebrated experts, professors and scholars of artistic design from over twenty countries in Europe, America, Asia to give lectures.

national role

Students graduating from the Academy are well received in the society with their fine quality. They work at State organs, news and press, institutions of higher learning, culture and art organizations, research institutes, as well as various enterprises, making significant contribution to the country's economic development and cultural and ideological progress, and to the prosperity and development of its art design and fine arts undertaking.

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