Dalian Art College

Dalian Art College (DAC) is a full-time undergraduate art institution approved by China’s Ministry of Education. It was founded in January 2000, became Dalian Art College of Northeastern University in December 2003 and an independent undergraduate college in April 2009; the former Dalian Art Professional College was incorporated in 2011.

The college works from Dalian, Liaoning, on two campuses, at 19 Tonghui Road in the Jinpu New Area and 92 Northeast Street in the Economic and Technological Development Zone, over more than 60 hectares with a planned floor area of 360,000 square metres. A cultural and creative park and an affiliated senior high school complete the set-up.

Fifteen secondary colleges, among them Music, Dance, Drama, Film and Television, Fine Arts, Art and Design, Fashion and Art and Technology Industry, deliver 35 bachelor’s and 18 junior-college programmes across art, management, literature, education and agriculture. More than 1,300 staff teach nearly 15,000 students, and the college counts almost 50,000 graduates.

Teaching pairs the classroom with practice: twelve original stage productions in twelve years have reached more than 12 million participants, including at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The college holds two national and seven provincial first-class majors, 64 provincial first-class courses and 17 national research projects.