The school is the only institution of higher learning in China that has the right to award doctoral degrees in all five first-level disciplines under the art discipline and postdoctoral research mobile station. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 20 17, all five first-level disciplines ranked in the top six.

Among them, art was awarded A-level, music, dance and design were awarded A-level, and drama, film and television and art theory were awarded B+ level. Class A subjects account for 60% of the total number of subjects in the school, ranking first in the province; Four disciplines ranked first in the province. In 20 18, all five first-level disciplines were selected into the third-phase construction project of dominant disciplines in colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province.

Since 20 15, 33 national scientific research projects have been approved, including 5 major artistic projects (research on China's design thought and contemporary practice, research on China's characteristic art think tank, centennial art movement under the leadership of China's * * * production party, research on Chinese painting, and research on the theory and method of interdisciplinary art history) and 7 key projects.

35 local university development projects supported by the central government; Obtained 106 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects; He was awarded 5 outstanding achievement awards in social sciences by the Ministry of Education and 20 outstanding achievement awards in philosophy and social sciences in Jiangsu Province. A number of research institutions in the school have been approved as provincial research bases for philosophy and social sciences; A number of research teams have been approved as provincial excellent innovation teams. Art and Design was selected as the source periodical of CSSCI and the national Chinese core periodical, and Music and Performance was selected as the national Chinese core periodical in 2020.