Established in 1946, Jilin University of Arts is the only comprehensive higher art academy in Northeast China.

The university – located in a prosperous area in the center of Changchun, capital city of Jilin province –has four campuses for performance, modeling, synthesis and urban art.

With four campuses, Jilin University of Arts is located in Changchun, capital of Jilin province.

There are 13 teaching departments in the university, which currently has 8,686 full-time students, comprising 1,045 master's degree students and 7,641 undergraduate students.

The university's 10 majors – musicology, painting, visual communications design, digital media art, radio and television choreography, performance, product design, animation, music performance and environmental design – are national first-class majors.

It is home to six national scientific research and creation platforms. These include the Winter Olympics Cultural and Artistic Creation Center, the China-Russia University Art Exchange Base of the Ministry of Education and the China-Russian Art University Association.

Jilin University of Arts is widely known for its strong faculty. There are 710 faculty members, including 558 full-time teachers, with 261 having associate senior titles or above. The university also employs more than 100 domestic and foreign visiting professors and part-time professors.

Responding to the needs of the country, especially in local cultural development, the university has actively undertaken academic research and innovative programs. Teachers and students have participated in 60 projects supported by the National Social Science Fund, the National Art Fund and the Ministry of Education's humanities and social sciences program.

In addition, the university actively carries out international education exchanges, and has established friendly interschool relations with 31 leading arts schools in more than 10 countries and regions across the world.