The school of art and design of Guilin University of Electronic Science and technology began to recruit design students in 1985. It is one of the earliest colleges and universities to set up design art education in China and one of the largest design art talent training bases in Guangxi.

The college has seven undergraduate majors: product design, visual communication design, animation, environmental design, clothing and costume design, digital media technology and performance; Master's degree in design and master's degree in art. Among them, the first-class discipline of design is the key discipline in Guangxi, the product design specialty is the national first-class specialty and the first-class undergraduate specialty in Guangxi under the double ten thousand plan, the digital media specialty group (including three majors of digital media technology, animation and visual communication design) is the advantageous and characteristic specialty group in Guangxi, and the animation creation experiment center is the experimental teaching demonstration center in Guangxi autonomous region, The design virtual experiment center is the Guangxi autonomous region level virtual simulation experiment demonstration center; It is an innovative experimental area for the training mode of industrial design talents in Guangxi, a training base for animation talents in Guangxi, and an excellent interior design education institution in Guangxi. There are more than 2000 undergraduates and more than 180 postgraduates.

The college has a professional teaching team with reasonable structure and exquisite business. At present, there are 90 full-time teachers, including 16 with doctoral degrees, 18 in doctoral studies, 10 with senior professional titles, 31 with deputy senior professional titles and 33 master's supervisors. More than 80% of them have master's degrees or above. Three were selected as thousands of backbone teachers in Colleges and universities in Guangxi, three were employed as members of the Teaching Steering Committee of colleges and universities in the autonomous region, and one was a famous teaching teacher at the school level.

In recent years, the college has won 2 first prizes, 2 second prizes and 1 third prize for teaching achievements in Guangxi; Won 6 first prizes in the national multimedia teaching courseware competition; He has published more than 20 monographs and 15 teaching materials, including one national planning textbook in the 12th Five Year Plan and one excellent textbook of China electronic education society. Teachers of the college presided over 6 national level scientific research projects, 17 provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects, more than 100 projects entrusted by local governments and enterprises, with a total scientific research fund of more than 8 million yuan, and obtained 7 invention patents and 117 utility model patents; 125 core and above papers have been published, and more than 20 teachers' art works have been collected by Guangxi National Museum and art galleries at all levels.

The college pays attention to the training of applied talents, and implements the design talent training scheme with equal emphasis on practical ability and innovation ability. The effect is good, and the employment rate is maintained at more than 92% every year. Students have actively participated in various professional competitions, including the national college student advertising design competition, the national college student industrial design competition, the national finals of Miss International Tourism and other major competitions, and won more than 900 awards. It is one of the colleges with a higher number of awards among similar colleges and universities in China.