Jiangnan University School of Design has industrial design, art design (including environmental art design, visual communication design, public **** art design and other professional direction), architecture, advertising and fine arts majors.
Jiangnan University School of Design, formerly known as the Wuxi Institute of Light Industry Modeling Department, was founded in 1960. It has the longest history of modern design education in China and is one of the earliest colleges and universities in China to set up the discipline of design and art, and is the main birthplace of modern design education in China as well as the pioneer and demonstration college of design education reform in China.
The college focuses on cultivating elite design talents and is committed to research-based design education. At present, the college covers five undergraduate majors and seven professional directions, namely, industrial design, art design (including environmental art design, visual communication design, public **** art design and other professional directions), architecture, advertising and fine arts majors.
The college has a complete talent training system, including a doctoral degree program in product system design and theory, master's degree programs in design art and fine art, and an engineering master's degree program in industrial design. The discipline of design art is the key construction discipline in the first, second and third phase of the national "211 project". Industrial design is a national higher education specialty, and art design is the first batch of brand specialty and specialty in Jiangsu Province.