Abstract: Graduation design (thesis) is the last and key step to examine the effectiveness of students' learning, which is a summary and sublimation of students' teaching work during their school years and an important link between theory and practice. This paper takes Northeastern University as an example, and uses the method of analysis and induction to analyze the necessity of reforming the graduation design (thesis) of art majors in comprehensive colleges and universities, to find out the problems in development, to locate the cultivation goal, and to explore the suitable discipline environment for development. We analyze the current situation of Northeastern University to clarify the reform goals: to establish a comprehensive goal in line with Northeastern University's multidisciplinarity, a high-quality goal to meet the needs of talent cultivation, and a characteristic goal to cultivate Northeastern regional culture. We propose four reform initiatives to reform the content requirements, judging standards, presentation methods and standard positioning of the graduation design (thesis) for Northeastern University's art majors in response to the existing problems. We take advantage of various effective resources to carry out a comprehensive and accurate grasp of reform countermeasures, so as to promote the better development of the graduation design (thesis) of art majors in comprehensive colleges and universities and contribute to the reform of the graduation design (thesis) of art majors in Northeastern University.

Key words: Comprehensive class, Art class, Graduation design (thesis), Reform countermeasures