The Department of Stage Design has a long history, as one of the first disciplines established when the CAD was founded. At the Department located a Development Point of National First-Class Undergraduate Major. For decades, it has form a, inclusive, sound and diverse disciplinary layout, and distinctive, systematic and scientific educational mechanism, which allows it to excels in the field of professional teaching at home and abroad.

The Department of Stage Design aims to train students to be professional designers for stage and screen, with comprehensive abilities and solid professional skills. It now provides courses for 8 specialties of research that fall into 3 categories: Set Design, Lighting Design, Costume Design, Make-Up Design, Scenic Painting, Stage Technique, Computer Design for Performing Arts, and Sound Design for Performing Arts. It provides 4-year and 5-year undergraduate programmes, and postgraduate and doctoral ones as well, to cover all levels of educational demand.

We possess a leading building dedicated to professional teaching, well-equipped, spacious, and more than qualified to meet all the teaching needs of students of various majors. Inside the building, there is an exhibition hall, the Black & White Space, that can host important academic exhibitions of top international designers and artists, alumni, as well as teachers and students of the Department. The exhibition hall is an important platform at the CAD for national and international academic exchanges of Stage Design.

Most of the faculty members have experiences of studying abroad or international exchange and visits. Keen on culture inheritance and artistic creation, they have a broad cultural vision, critical thinking and firm values about art. They are influential in the industry of stage art at home and abroad.

Our graduates are now working for various universities, theatre troupes and companies, and institutes, where they teach, create, research and make important contributions. They always stand at the forefront of stage design in China, playing an indispensable role in the development of this field as the name card of the best stage art education in the country.