上海视觉艺术学院创办于2005年9月，是一所以国有投资为主体，同时吸纳部分社会力量和民营资金，混合所有制的新型综合艺术类普通本科高等院校。学校原名复旦大学上海视觉艺术学院，2013年4月，经国家教育部批准，学校从原来的复旦大学独立二级学院，转设为独立建制的“上海视觉艺术学院”。 

        截至目前，学校下设九个二级学院：视觉-德稻设计学院、新媒体艺术学院、时尚设计学院、美术学院、表演艺术学院、文化创意产业管理学院、文物保护与修复学院、流行音乐学院、基础教育学院。

        现有专任教师300余人，专任教授、副教授160余人，兼职教师480余人，名誉、客座、兼职教授80多位，在校学生总数4000余名。 

        现已开设 “视觉传达设计”“产品设计”“环境设计”“艺术与科技”“数字媒体艺术”“动画”“摄影”“播音与主持艺术”“广播电视编导”“服装与服饰设计”“工艺美术”“绘画”“雕塑”“公共艺术”“表演”“文物保护与修复”“文化产业管理”“流行演唱”和“流行舞蹈”等共计19个艺术类和管理类专业，近40个专业（方向）。

        学校和北京德稻教育机构开合作先河，共同打造国际艺术大师本科实验班。从2013年大师实验班首届招生以来，现已有11个专业方向30余个实验班。创新办学模式的探索成效显著，这一合作模式得到国家教育部首肯，2017年被列入“上海市综合教育改革典型案例”。

        2007年，经国家教育部批准，学校进入艺术类高考第一批次志愿独立自主招生行列；

        2013年4月，学校经国家教育部严格考核、全国专家团高票通过，在上海的独立学院中首个成功转设,成为独立建制的“上海视觉艺术学院”；

        2015年4月，年轻的上海视觉艺术学院跃居QS全球大学“艺术与设计”学科第71名，这一世界排名表明学校的主要学科已开始进入国际领先行列；

        2009年拥有首届本科生毕业至今，历届毕业生的综合就业率均超过95%，学生自主创业率超过10%。历年来，新生报到率均高于98%。学校育人成效显著、科研成果丰硕，社会美誉度不断提高。 

        通过与国际知名艺术院校交流的累积，我校常态化参与国际艺术设计教育交流项目，如短期及中长期工作坊、师生互访交流、合作项目的开拓及推进、专家咨询研讨会等交流计划。其中，艺术设计国际工作坊项目以专业辐射面广、内容面渗透深、转换面更有效、显现出鲜明的特色价值。以最经济合理性地使用资助经费的基本要求推进并开拓更多的国际艺术设计教育交流工作坊内容。同时，通过邀请艺术领域的教学专家共同在工作坊中，展开研究，探索艺术与设计学科的先进教学理念、特色和定位、课程内容设计研究、教学方法和手段，并形成一系列辐射师生的国际艺术设计讲座。

Founded in September, 2005, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA) is a new and comprehensive university which offers undergraduate programs distinctive for art nature. SIVA is invested with mixed capital, of which state-owned enterprises dominate and the rest is the social capital. SIVA was affiliated to Fudan University in its initial stage. In the April of 2013, approved by Ministry of Education, SIVA became an independent institute in organizational system.

Currently, there are nine schools affiliated to SIVA, namely, SIVA-Detao School of Design, School of New Media Arts, School of Fashion Design, School of Fine Arts, School of Performing Art, School of Cultural and Creative Industry Management, School of Cultural Relics Preservation and Restoration, School of Popular Music and School of Basic Education. 

At present, the whole faculty is composed of 300-odd full-time teachers, among whom 160 are full professors and associate professors; over 480 part-time teachers, among whom 80-odd are honorary professors, guest professors and part-time professors; there are 4000-odd enrolled students.

Currently, there are 19 art-related and administration-related majors and almost 40 academic orientations, including ‘Visual Communication Design’, ‘Product Design’, ‘Environment Design’, ‘Art and Technology’, ‘Digital Media Arts’, ‘Animation’, ‘Photography’, ‘Arts of Broadcasting and Anchoring’, ‘Radio and Television Editing and Directing’, ‘Clothing and Apparel Design’, ‘Arts and Crafts’, ‘Painting’, ‘Sculpture’, ‘Public Arts’, ‘Performing’, ‘Preservation and Restoration’, ‘Cultural Industry Management’, ‘Popular Singing’ and ‘Popular Dancing’. 

The school made joint efforts with Beijing Detao Group to co-run pilot undergraduate programs of cultivating international art masters, which is a pioneering endeavor in this particular field. Since 2013 when the first batch of students were enrolled, there have been 30-odd pilot classes and 11 majors. The highly innovative running school model has scored remarkable achievements in their efforts to explore all kinds of possibilities. This cooperation mode has been accredited by the Ministry of Education and was listed as one of the ‘Shanghai integrated education reform representative cases’ in 2017.

With the approval of National Education Ministry in 2007, the school found itself among the first batch of being granted the special right to enroll on its own the first batch of second choice students in art higher institutions.

In April, 2013, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts became an independent university in organizational system, the first of its kind, after the strict examination of National Education Ministry, with the approval of the national experts group through voting.

On the list issued by QS in April 2015, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts ranked 71st in terms of “Art and Design”. This ranking position showed that the chief disciplines and majors of the school had occupied a leading position across the world.

Since 2009 when we had the first batch of graduates, our employment rate has been above 95% in succession, 10% of the graduates choosing to establish their own business. In recent years, more than 98% new-enrolled students have come to campus for registration. The school has reaped the fruit in cultivating students, scientific researches and the compliments from society.

Through the communication with internationally well-known art schools, SIVA has constantly engaged in a lot of international art design teaching exchange projects, like workshops in short term and long term, mutual visit and communication between teachers and students, developing and processing the cooperative projects and expert consultation conference etc. Among those projects, the art design international workshop proved its brilliant and unique value with the big amount of major covering, the depth of knowledge explaining and the efficiency of transforming. It developed and processed communication activities with the most reasonable use of the expenditures and hosted a series of international art design lectures facing teachers and students by inviting teaching experts in art field to the workshop to cooperatively conduct researches, explore advanced teaching concepts, characteristics and the position of art and design, design course contents and discuss teaching methods.

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