上海大学影视艺术技术学院成立于1995年。现设新闻传播系、影视艺术系、影视工程系、广告学系、电视制作部和影视实验中心，共有教职员工150人，其中专任教师102人。共有教授（研究员）22人，副教授（副高）25人，具有硕士学位以上的教师70人（其中博士学位35人）。博士生导师13人。
经过十多年建设，学院已经形成了覆盖博士、硕士、学士完整教育层次的教学体系，现有传播学、电影学两个博士点和一级学科博士点下自主增设的数字媒体技术与应用、文化创意产业发展与管理两个博士专业；新闻传播学、艺术学两个一级学科硕士点，新闻学、传播学、广播电视艺术学、电影学、艺术学等五个二级学科硕士点以及自主增设的数字媒体技术与应用、戏剧戏曲学两个硕士点；新闻学、广播电视新闻学、广告学、会展艺术与技术、广播电视编导、影视艺术技术六个本科专业和广告创意、动画两个专业方向。现有在校博士生74人，硕士生267人，本科生1437人。
学院现有两个上海市第三期重点学科——传播学、电影学，一个“211”工程三期重点学科——传媒制度转型与传媒发展，一个上海高校人文社科重点研究基地——影视与传媒产业，以及一个上海市教育高地——影视传播。已建设完成上海市第四期重点学科——广播电视艺术学。
学院积极开展国际交流活动，已与北美洲、欧洲、澳洲和我国港澳台地区的近20所院校建立了合作关系。
学院实验中心拥有2000多万元资产设备，建有3大实验平台，各类专业实验室22个，包括高清影视制作、数字影视艺术设计、卫星电视技术、数码影像等实验室和演播厅、录音棚等。
学院将努力打造国际知名、国内一流的传媒研究教学中心和开放的国际交流平台。坚持科学发展观，以特色内涵建设为重点，坚持艺术技术结合，培养具有人文精神、专业素养、实务技能的影视和传播复合型人才，把学院建设成为与上海国际性大都市地位相适应的、与当代传媒和创意经济发展需要相适应的高层次人才培养和研究基地之一，成为特色鲜明、社会声誉良好的研究型影视与传播专业学院。
School of Film & TV Arts and Technology
Shanghai University
Founded in 1995, the School of Film & TV Arts and Technology of Shanghai University (SFTAT) is composed of 4 departments: Department of Communication and Journalism, Department of Film and TV Arts, Department of Film and TV Engineering, and Department of Advertisement. In addition to the above academic programs, SFTAT also administrates the TV Production Department and Center for Film and TV Experiment. SFTAT has 102 faculty members and 48 staff members, including 22 full professors (research fellows) and 25 associate professors, 13 of them doctoral advisors.
After more than a decade of development, SFTAT has grown to be one of the key institutions in the nation in film and communication studies, offering doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees. In undergraduate teaching, SFTAT has 6 majors: Film and TV Directing and Writing, Film and TV Arts and Technology, TV Broadcasting and Reporting, Journalism, Advertising, and Exhibition Planning and Management. In addition, 2 new areas were recently established: Animation and Creative Design. Currently, SFTAT has over 1,437 registered full-time undergraduate students. In graduate teaching, SFTAT has 6 majors: Television Studies, Journalism, Arts Studies, Communication, Film Studies, and Digital Media Technology and its Applications, the last three of which offer PhD degrees. Currently, there are 267 graduate students in SFTAT’s master’s programs, and 74 in its doctoral programs..
There are two city-level key research programs at SFTAT: Communication Studies and Film Studies, and one “211 Project” administrated key research program: Institutional Transformation of Communication. In addition, the school also houses the Film, TV & Media Industry Research Institute, the Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, Shanghai. As a key discipline authorized by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the major of TV Studies was also selected by Shanghai Municipal Government as one of the Ten Education Highlands in 2005.
To boost international exchanges, SFTAT has in recent years established relations with more than 20 colleges across the globe, including that in North America, Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.
SFTAT has a fixed asset of more than 20 million RMB. Registered students can get access to a variety of media labs, including the Multimedia Production Lab, Digital Design Lab, HD Film & TV Production Lab, Satellite TV Production Lab, Sound Recording Lab, TV Production Lab, TV Post-Production Lab, 3D Animation Lab, Digital TV Testing Lab, Photography Lab, Lab for Creative Design in Advertisement, Internet Graphic Design Lab, Student TV Station, and Sound Stage.