The cultivation of first-class talents is inseparable from the construction of first-class majors.
On June 13, the Higher Education Professional Evaluation Agency Ranking officially released the "2024 Ranking of Chinese Universities by Major", and each major released the top 50% of universities, with a total of 31,414 majors from 1,103 universities on the list. Among them, some non-"double first-class" universities have come to the fore by virtue of their first-class professional strength.
This article extracts the top 50 majors and the top 30 A-class majors in non-"double first-class" universities, let us take a look at the professional construction strength and style of these universities!
Professional giants, in full bloom
Major construction is an important indicator of a university's development level, and the number of majors on the list reflects the scale and overall strength of the university. Among the top 50 majors in non-"double first-class" universities, Yangzhou University is unbeatable, with a total of 104 majors on the list; Nanjing University of Technology, Jiangsu University, and Kunming University of Science and Technology followed, with 90 majors on the list, demonstrating extraordinary strength; Guangdong University of Technology and Yangtze University both have 86 majors on the list, tied for fifth place, with outstanding performance.
In addition, universities with 80 or more majors on the list include Xihua University (84), Henan University of Science and Technology (82), Shenzhen University (80), Shandong Normal University (80), and Sichuan Normal University (80).
Top5, a strong breakthrough
As the first university in the country to carry out a merger, Yangzhou University has a complete range of disciplines and outstanding scale advantages. In this ranking, Yangda ranked first among non-"double first-class" universities with 104 majors on the list, ranked among the top 10 in the country in the fields of engineering and agriculture, and was rated A+ in cooking and nutrition education, animal and plant quarantine, laboratory zoology, and veterinary public health. Agricultural science is the traditional advantage of Yangzhou University. In 2023 alone, the school will carry out scientific research around major scientific problems and "stuck neck" technical problems in crop production technology and seed industry innovation, and one of the technologies researched and proposed will be selected as the 2023 Engineering and Technical Problems of the China Association for Science and Technology, and the two technologies will be selected as the 2023 Global Engineering Research Frontier and Global Engineering Development Frontier of the Chinese Academy of Engineering respectively...... Blockbuster achievements are around, demonstrating "great strength".
Nanjing University of Technology ranked second with 90 majors on the list. Six majors of the school were rated A+, and three majors of disaster prevention and mitigation science and engineering, emergency equipment technology and engineering, and water quality science and technology ranked first in the country. In 2023, 5 new majors will be certified as engineering education, of which 2 majors will be the first in the country to pass the certification, and the total number of majors that have passed the certification (evaluation) ranks second among universities in the country. At present, the university has 31 national first-class undergraduate majors, 7 national characteristic majors, and 7 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program...... Relying on the strong professional construction strength, over the years, the school has cultivated more than 20 leading cadres at or above the provincial and ministerial level, more than 30 academicians, more than 100 leaders of central enterprises and listed companies, and has delivered more than 300,000 high-quality talents to the society, becoming the cradle of first-class talent growth.
Jiangsu University has a total of 90 majors on the list, tied for second. Data Calculation and Application, New Energy Vehicle Engineering, Agricultural Electrification, and Environmental Protection Equipment Engineering were rated A+. In recent years, the university has won 11 national teaching achievement awards, and has formed high-quality teaching resources represented by 40 national first-class majors and a number of national characteristic majors, national first-class undergraduate courses, national modern industry colleges, national experimental teaching demonstration centers, national excellent teaching teams, and national virtual teaching and research departments. The employment rate of graduates has been maintained at more than 96%, and remarkable results have been achieved in professional construction and talent training.
Kunming University of Science and Technology has 90 majors on the list, the automotive maintenance engineering education major was rated A+, and won the first place in the country, and the gem and material technology major ranked third in the country. As one of the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship college construction units and the implementation of the Ministry of Education's "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program", as of January this year, Kunming University of Science and Technology has built 33 national first-class courses, 10 textbooks, 3 teaching teams, 16 experimental teaching demonstration centers (engineering practice education centers), and 12 national new engineering (new agricultural science and new liberal arts) research and practice projects. The school's pace of striving for first-class has never stopped, and it is remarkable in professional construction.
Guangdong University of Technology, which adheres to the concept of "student-oriented, child-like, aptitude-based teaching, and characteristic training", has a total of 86 majors on the list, ranking fifth, and 4 majors of mechanical and electronic engineering, visual communication design, environmental design, and product design have been rated A+. The school vigorously promotes new engineering education, and deepens the integration of industry and education with well-known enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent, and GAC Aion. The construction of first-class undergraduate majors and first-class undergraduate courses has been steadily promoted, and 15 new national first-class courses will be added in 2023.
Yangtze University tied for fifth place with 86 majors on the list, with an A+ major in resource and environmental big data engineering and an A grade in business English. In recent years, Yangtze University attaches great importance to the construction of professional connotation, benchmarks the national standards for the teaching quality of undergraduate majors and professional certification standards, comprehensively deepens the reform of education and teaching, forms a standardized and orderly working mechanism, and lays a solid foundation for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors.
Pedagogical University, with distinctive characteristics
In recent years, many normal colleges have made rapid progress and become the backbone of the mainland's diverse higher education ecosystem. Among the top 50 non-"double first-class" universities in terms of the number of majors on the list, normal colleges and universities performed outstandingly, accounting for 14 seats. Shandong Normal University, Sichuan Normal University, Fujian Normal University, Henan Normal University, Shanghai Normal University, Anhui Normal University, Qufu Normal University, Guizhou Normal University and other normal colleges have more than 70 majors on the list, and the strength of professional construction is good.
Shandong Normal University has a total of 80 majors on the list, and the art and management of aviation service ranks second in the country and is rated A+. Rooted in the fertile soil of Qilu culture and absorbing the humanistic charm of Quancheng, Shandong Normal University has excellent normal strength and undertakes all categories of projects of the Ministry of Education's "Quality Project"; 4 people were awarded the title of National Famous Teachers, and 2 people were awarded the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" Famous Teachers; won 19 national teaching achievement awards; 2 national teaching teams and 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project have been built; In 2017, it successfully passed the audit and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. With continuous efforts, Shandong Normal University has been selected as a provincial "double first-class" construction university, and will continue to write the glory of teacher education.
Sichuan Normal University, which has 80 majors on the list, has a total of 14 majors rated A, focusing on education, literature, management and art. In recent years, Sichuan Normal University has comprehensively promoted and implemented the "Action Plan for First-class Undergraduate Education", taking the construction of first-class undergraduate majors as an important focus, taking the construction of the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" of first-class majors as an opportunity, and taking the construction of first-class majors as an important foundation and fundamental starting point for accelerating the construction of "Double First-Class" and realizing connotative development, and has achieved outstanding results. At present, a total of 56 undergraduate majors of the university have entered the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors, accounting for 78.8% of the number of enrolled majors.
University of Science and Technology, shine
Henan University of Science and Technology has a total of 82 majors on the list, ranking among the top 10 majors in the list of non-"double first-class" universities. As one of the "double first-class" universities in Henan Province and one of the key high-level comprehensive universities in Henan Province, the school has 2 national teaching teams, 1 national university Huang Danian-style teacher team, 7 provincial teaching teams, and 5 Henan Huang Danian-style teacher teams, and the strong faculty has laid a solid foundation for talent training. The school has successively trained more than 360,000 senior professionals for the country, and has been identified as the only university for talent training and technical support by the national bearing industry, and is known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" in the bearing industry.
Among the top 50 majors in the list of non-"double first-class" universities, Hunan University of Science and Technology, which is a university of the Ministry of Education's "Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program" and a university with typical experience in graduate employment, Shandong University of Science and Technology, which is a high-level university in Shandong Province, and Guilin University of Electronic Science and Technology, which was inspected by Comrade Jiang Zemin and wrote the inscription "Cultivate more qualified talents for the development of the electronics industry", has a total of more than 70 majors on the list, with distinctive characteristics and outstanding professional construction quality.
Strong breakthrough, strength over A
According to the rating rules of the 2024 Ranking of Chinese Universities, the top 2% or the top 2 in the comprehensive ranking of majors are A+, and 2%-10% are A, and the number of A-type majors (the sum of the number of A+ majors and the number of A-majors) shows the extremely high level of professional construction of universities, which is also the confidence and driving force for their high-quality development.
Among the top 30 non-"double first-class" universities in terms of the number of Class A majors, Zhejiang University of Technology won the first place, ranking first with 33 Class A majors; Guangdong University of Technology and Guangzhou University tied for second place, with 31 Class A majors, and their professional strength is second to none. In addition, Nanjing University of the Arts (30), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (29), Zhejiang Gongshang University (27), Shenzhen University (27), Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (26), Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (25), Nanjing University of Finance and Economics (24), provide high-quality guarantee for cultivating first-class professionals.
As the first university jointly built by the province and the ministry in the eastern coastal provinces, Zhejiang University of Technology has cultivated and delivered more than 350,000 outstanding talents for the country since its establishment. In 2023 alone, the school has won 4 second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, 14 national first-class undergraduate courses, 1 second prize of the National Teacher Teaching Innovation Competition, and the Excellent Organization Award for the 15th Anniversary of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies has distinctive international characteristics, with 14 of the 29 A-class majors in foreign Chinese language and literature, and is an important base for the cultivation of international talents in South China. In recent years, the construction of the school's first-class teaching team has been remarkable, with 2 national teaching teams, 1 national innovation team, 30 provincial teaching teams, 1 national famous teacher and 10 provincial famous teachers. 95 people were selected into the provincial talent plan of Guangdong Province; It has successively hired 477 "Yunshan Scholars" and 29 chief experts of Yunshan Studio. In addition, the university has 22 visiting professors and nearly 100 long-term foreign teachers...... It has embarked on a unique path of high-quality development.
Shenzhen University has demonstrated a high-quality level of professional construction with 27 A-class majors. Guided by the Action Plan for First-class Undergraduate Education of Shenzhen University (2020-2025), Shenzhen University has 5 national-level characteristic majors, 34 national-level first-class undergraduate majors, and 17 provincial-level first-class disciplines. It has cultivated nearly 300,000 innovative and entrepreneurial talents of various types, more than 95% of whom have taken root in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, making important contributions to the development of the Special Administrative Region and the modernization of the country.
Focusing on building a world-class high-level undergraduate education with Chinese characteristics is an important task of the "double first-class" construction, and the construction of first-class majors is the key point and focus of promoting the construction of "double first-class", and it is also an important prerequisite for building a first-class discipline. We look forward to more high-level universities, led by professional strength, innovation and development, among the first-class, to achieve a counterattack!