Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1949. Since its foundation, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts has abided by the motto of “carrying forward beauty and virtue and creating the now by virtue of the ancient”. For a long time, based on the schooling philosophy of “tradition-based, for contemporary use, strengthened connotation and characteristic development”, the Academy has been gradually forming a fine art education system of strong foundation, reasonable structure and distinctive characteristics. The Academy is entitled to award doctoral and master’s degree of three first-level discipline which are artistic theory, fine arts and design science, it is among the first batch of units authorized to grant master degree (1981) and the ninth batch of units authorized to grant doctoral degree (2003) approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 2014, the Academy was approved to set up a center for art post-doctoral studies. In 2007, the Academy achieved “excellent” in the undergraduate teaching evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2011 the Academy was listed as one of 11 high-level and distinctive key construction universities of Shaanxi Province.