Established in 1912, Nanjing University of the Arts is the only comprehensive art university in Jiangsu Province.The campus covers an area of about 700 acres, while the school buildings take up an area of 300,000 square meters at present. By 2015, NanjingUniversity of the Arts has 10063 students. It currently consists of 13 schools, including schools of fine arts, music, design, industrial design, media, movie and television, dance, popular music, humanities, cultural industry and school of international education. Apart from these schools, it also has an academic research institute, a modern educational technology center, the attached secondary school as well as other teaching subsidiary units. Nanjing University of the Arts has 37 divisions of majors. These majors are subdivided into more than 100 different directions.

The history of recruitment of international students dates back to the fifties of the 1950s in Nanjing University of the Arts. Since the school of international education established in 1995,after more than 20 years of development, our school has already admitted more than several thousands of international students from five continents, more than 80 countries and regions, educating excellent international talents of different majors. Meanwhile, we set Chinese refresher course, recruiting Chinese learners from primary to advanced level. And we offer short-term courses such as Chinese Painting and Modern Handcrafts, and designs several studying courses according to the condition of the short-term students. Our short-term programs are abundant in courses types and teaching forces with innovative extra-curriculum practices and extraordinary learning conditions. By now, we have succeeded in holding dozens of courses attended by students from European Union countries, America, Japan ,South Korea.

Foreign students who apply for our university can apply for Chinese Government Scholarship, Nanjing Scholarship for Foreign Students and other school scholarships. We have School buildings and dormitories for foreign students with all sorts of facilities in order to offer a top-level environment to students.