School of Culture and Creativity is a new characteristic department established in response to the booming trend of cultural and creative industries at home and abroad and the urgent demand for applied talents. It cultivates creative versatile applied talents with cultural and artistic background, professional skills and the ability to adapt to the social needs. The Department of Cultural and Creative Industries has seven majors: Environmental Art Design, Architectural Interior Design, Clothing Design and Apparel Design, Art Design, Clothing Design and Technology, Art Design, Digital Media Application Technology, Film and Television Animation, and it has more than 700 students.

The School of Culture and Creativity has a mature and well- structured teaching team. At the same time, it employs professors from Shanghai Theatre Academy, Tongji University, Shanghai University of Engineering Technology and other institutions of high learning, as well as well-known artists and scholars at home and broad to join the teaching team. It also employs professional and part-time teachers who bring cutting-edge teaching ideas and practical experience.

At present, there are 20 full-time teachers, 15 visiting professors, and 26 part-time teachers. There are 15 senior professor titles, accounting for 27.7% of the total number of the teachers, and 26 intermediate professional titles, accounting for 40% of the total number of teachers; 54 teachers have double quality, accounting for 84% of the total number of professional teachers.

The School of Culture and Creativity has a team of counselors with high ideological quality and rich experience in student work. They insist on teaching as the center, carry out quality education activities, and strive to improve students’ ideological, moral and cultural quality. Over the years, they has organized many large-scale cultural activities and won unanimous praise.

The school has modern teaching facilities. There are 2 master studios, 3 school-enterprise teacher studios, nonlinear editing studio, model making training room, decoration material and display training room, 3 D printing training room, professional printing room, clothing training room, film and television studio, professional exhibition hall, 8 professional computer rooms multimedia classrooms, etc.

The school has been strongly supported and guided by the society. A professional construction steering committee has been set up, consisting of Shanghai masters(famous teachers), technical directors of enterprises, experts from brother universities and key professional teachers, to guide the professional construction and teaching reform.

The school has established close friendly cooperative relations with more than 60 enterprises, such as Kunshan Goodchild Group, JuXin Construction Group, Chenfeng Group, Kunshan Shameina Clothing Co.,LTD., Wujiang Yingnuo Fashion Co.,LTD., Heyswell，Suzhou Tianyin International Design, Suzhou Youzhan Media Co.,LTD., Shanghai Xiaoyi Architectural Decoration Design Co.,LTD., Kunshan Datian Decoration Co.,LTD., Shanghai Fengmao Architectural Design Co.,LTD., Xupin Design, Shanghai Jiangnan Architectural Design Institute. There are 14 off-campus training and practice bases. Technical experts from enterprises provide professional training guidance to students on a regular basis, and cooperate in the development of courses and textbooks, so that the teaching content of the school and the needs of enterprises can be seamlessly connected.  

As an emerging pillar industry supported by China, cultural and creative industry is in great demand for talents. With the change of China’s economic development mode and the arrival of the era of “Chinese creation”, cultural creative workers will be the most urgently needed talents in China. The rise of a large number of cultural and creative enterprises provides a broad space for the development of creative talents. The school strives to create conditions for students to participate in art design, environmental art design, architecture and interior, film and television, fashion design and other professional skills certificates, to improve the competitiveness of students in employment. The employment rate and employment quality of students can be improved by combining recommended employment and independent job selection with the help of well-cooperated school-enterprise cooperation units. The employment rate of graduates in the past three years has reached more than 98%. They will become the new force of “Creation in China” and become the important applied art and design talents in China cultural and creative industry.