The Department of Media and Arts (DMA) offers 9 programs, including film and animation, environmental art design, visual communication design and production, film and TV program production, product art design, costume and apparel design, digital media art design, animation design, architecture animation and mould making. The Department has a strong teaching staff. It owns two municipal-level teaching teams and 97.4% of teachers have both teaching and professional titles. The Department has won the second place of state-level teaching achievement award and the first place of Chongqing teaching achievement award.

The Department has made innovations in its way of talent training. It has contributed greatly to providing technical services, R&D, culture and communication, facilitating the development of the cultural and creative industry in Jiulongpo and Chongqing at large. In recent years, the students have won more than 100 first awards in professional skill contests of state level and provincial level. The employment rate of the graduates stands above 98.4%, with 91.3% of graduates finding their jobs matching what they have learned. 23.7% students enter into top-up programs.