New version of Graduate Education Discipline Professional Catalog Starting 2023

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 14 (Reporter Xu Zhuang) Reporter learned from the 14th that the Degree Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education recently issued the "Catalog of Graduate Education Discipline (2022)" and "Administrative Measures for the Professional Discipline of Graduate Education Disciplines" " There are 14 categories in the new version of the catalog, 117 first -level disciplines, 36 doctoral degree categories, and 31 master's degree categories. This is the professional catalog of graduate education disciplines in my country, which will be implemented from 2023.

The professional catalog of graduate education disciplines is the basic basis for the state's degree authorization and disciplinary professional management and degree awarding units to carry out degree awarding and talent training. As my country has entered a new stage of development, the 2011 version of the catalog and directory management mechanism that has been implemented for 10 years can no longer fully adapt to the new situation requirements.

According to the person in charge of the Office of the Degree Committee of the State Council, the main changes in the new version of the directory are the following five aspects: one is to set up professional degrees under all categories; the other is to strengthen discipline support for the frontiers and key areas of science and technology. Science and technology, nano -science and engineering and other first -level disciplines or interdisciplinary disciplines; the third is to better serve the needs of modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. Level discipline or cross -disciplinary discipline; fourth is to strengthen the support of disciplines that promote the outstanding traditional culture of China. Based on the first -level disciplines of the original art theory, a first -level discipline of art is set up; The basic support of the two types of high -level talents in the type and application type.

According to the arrangement, a new round of graduate enrollment and training launched in the second half of 2023 are carried out in the new version of the directory. Students and enrollment in 2022 and the training of students enrolled in September 2023 are still performed according to the original discipline majors.

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