Art institute of design presently is equipped with environmental design (including interior design, landscape design two professional direction), visual communication design, clothing and apparel design, product design, industrial design (no admissions) five undergraduate programs, including environmental design is a national first-class undergraduate degree construction points, characteristics of undergraduate professional in jiangsu province, Design is one of the key majors in Jiangsu Province. The "Creativity and Design Experiment Center" of the school is the Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Jiangsu Province, with 1165 students.

Since 1990, set up professional architectural decoration (direction), after more than 30 years of development, the college has built a structure more reasonable, more remarkable characteristics of teaching and research team, and partial 50 existing full-time teachers, including professors, associate professors, 23 people, master tutor 2 people, 6 people, Dr Master's degree above 94%, 36% of the teachers have overseas study experience, and 4 teachers have been selected into provincial talent projects such as "Qinglan Project", "333 High-level Talent Training Project" and "Zijin Talents project". One university-level teaching master, one provincial-level "Qinglan Project teaching team"