Donghua University is the first university in China to offer major in fashion design and engineering. As Donghua University's predecessor is Textile Institute of Technology, with the rise of new technologies and fashion concepts, Donghua University has played an engineering advantage and occupied a place in fashion design colleges at home and abroad. It can be said that at this point, Donghua University's fashion design is one of the best in the world, because it has world-class textile and garment engineering teachers.

Donghua University, formerly known as China Textile University, is a leader among textile universities. The discipline construction of clothing specialty is very good, ranking among the best in the world.

Top Ten Fashion Design Universities ranked 1, Donghua University 2, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University 3, Jiangnan University 4, dalian polytechnic university 5, Beijing Institute of Fashion 6, Suzhou University 7, China Academy of Fine Arts, etc.