The main goal of UAD is to train specialists, in the field of fine and decorative arts and design, who would have a significant impact in the cultural, commercial and industrial field of contemporary society, as well as to train art teachers for pre-university and university level. UAD wishes to transform its graduates into initiators of qualitative transformation of the human, spiritual and material environment. The University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca offers its students a high level of visual education through teaching methods that valuate the native cultural and artistic tradition, but also assimilate forms of contemporary artistic language.