The Department of Art & Design, one of the most distinctive departments in Hefei University, has developed its running mode featuring industry and education combination after years of exploration. It offers six undergraduate specialties, i.e., Industrial Design, Product Design, Visual Communication Design, Environmental Design, Animation, Art, and Technology. At present, the department has 1,200 full-time students and a faculty of 60 including three professors and 6 associate professors. The department has over 10 visiting professors from Hannover University of Applied Sciences of Germany, Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences, Hanbat University of Korea, Taiwan Ming Chuan University and Yunlin University of Science and Technology. To expand the visions of students, corporate executives and experienced designers are invited and lectures are given on a regular basis.

Founded in 1993, the Department of Tourism is one of the earliest-established tourism departments in Anhui Province. It offers three undergraduate specialties, i.e., Tourism Management, Hospitality Management and Human Geography, Urban and Rural Planning, and one college degree program, Tourism Management (Sino- Korean 1.5+1.5 program). The department now has more than 1000 enrolled students and a faculty of 34, including 13 professors and associate professors, 1 Provincial Outstanding Teacher, and more than 10 foreign visiting professors.

Founded in October 1980, the Department of Architectural Engineering is one of the earliest established departments in Heifei University. The department offers five undergraduate specialties: Civil Engineering, Architecture, Engineering Management, Transportation Engineering, and Civil Engineering (2+3). It has over 1,600 students and 46 faculty members, including four professors and 14 associate professors. There are two research centers in the department: Institute of Civil Engineering Management and Institute of Building Physics and Energy Conservation (Sino-German joint construction), for engineering designing and consulting as well as related research projects. The Experimental Centre of the department consists of 15 laboratories: Civil Engineering Measurement, Civil Engineering Materials, Engineering Mechanics, Soil Mechanics, Architectural Structure, Road Engineering, Engineering Geology, Architectural Physic, Architectural Model, Architectural Electrics and Equipment, Digital simulation technology of structural engineering, Architecture Innovation, Transportation Engineering, Hydromechanics, and Engineering Management. The fixed asset in labs has amounted to more than 1.6 million yuan, and many advanced facilities are imported from Germany. Under a joint construction program, the department was built with the help of the German University of Applied Sciences. Because of the agreement signed by Anhui Province and Lower Saxony in Germany inMarch,1985, the department has academic ties with a number of universities in Lower Saxony. In 2006, the department established the specialty of Civil Engineering (2+3)according to another agreement with Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences, achieving the goal of training undergraduates through Sino-German cooperation. Since then, about 60 students have been studying in Germany for a bachelor’s or a master's degree.