China News Service, February 25th, according to the website of the Ministry of Education, recently, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the 2021 undergraduate majors in ordinary colleges and universities, adding 1,961 majors, revoking 804 majors, and listing 31 new majors. Included in the "Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities".
Screenshot of the Ministry of Education website
In the adjustment of undergraduate majors, the Ministry of Education supports colleges and universities to actively serve the needs of national strategies, regional economic society and industrial development, and set majors that conform to the orientation and characteristics of running a school; guide colleges and universities to make good use of the "catalyst" of interdisciplinary integration to promote new engineering disciplines , New medical science, new agricultural science, new liberal arts construction, adding new inter-integrated majors such as liberal arts, science and engineering, and medical engineering.
In order to ensure the quality of majors, the Ministry of Education requires that additional majors in colleges and universities should meet the basic requirements of the "National Standards for Teaching Quality of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities".
At the same time, the online review process was strengthened, and more than 4,300 experts were organized to review the professional application materials, and put forward opinions and suggestions on the talent training plan, teaching staff, and teaching conditions.
According to the comments, colleges and universities optimize the talent training plan, strengthen the allocation of teachers, and improve the teaching and practice conditions.
After procedures such as declaration, publicity, and review, the Ministry of Education records the majors that are applied for by colleges and universities in various places, and according to the evaluation results of the professional setting and teaching steering committee of colleges and universities, it determines the nationally controlled distribution majors that have been approved and those that have not yet been included in the professional catalogue. list of new professions.
It is understood that since 2012, the Ministry of Education has focused on the core point of comprehensively improving talent training capabilities, actively adapted to changes in economic and social development needs, supported the establishment of 17,000 undergraduate majors in colleges and universities across the country, and cancelled or suspended nearly 10,000 majors. , to promote the continuous optimization of the professional structure of higher education.