The university began to offer undergraduate education in 1959, and now has 22 undergraduate majors, forming four major groups: modeling, design, film and television animation, and art theory, and actively expanding experimental art and other frontier, emerging and cross-disciplinary fields。

At present, the university has a total of 5 national characteristic majors and 10 Chongqing "three special Action plan" characteristic majors。Traditional specialties, such as painting and sculpture, have produced a large number of landmark works，在中国美术发展史上具有深远影响；一批随时代发展应运而生的优势专业在近十余年来得到快速发展，Product design leads the teaching of green design in China，With the new practical teaching system of "curriculum project", the animation major won the first national teaching achievement first prize since the founding of the art school。