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Unified discipline names of the Ministry of Education.
The standardization of discipline names by the Ministry of Education refers to the standardization of discipline classification in China's higher education in order to better promote discipline construction and development.

The main contents of the standardization of subject names of the Ministry of Education include:

1. Discipline classification: The Ministry of Education classifies disciplines in higher education by standardizing their names, mainly including six categories of disciplines: natural science, engineering technology, agricultural science, medicine and health, social science and humanities.

2. Subject name: In order to better describe the characteristics and connotation of the subject, the Ministry of Education standardized the names of various subjects. For example, in natural science, in order to better distinguish different disciplines, the names of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other disciplines are standardized.

3. Subject code: The Ministry of Education standardizes subject names and assigns a unique subject code to each subject, so as to better manage and count subject data. Specialty codes are a series of numbers used to identify the uniqueness of each specialty.

University discipline classification:

1, natural science: natural science is a discipline that studies natural phenomena and laws, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, geography, biology and other disciplines.

2. Engineering technology: Engineering technology is a discipline that studies engineering design, manufacturing and application, including mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science and technology, architecture, materials science and engineering, transportation engineering and other disciplines.

3. Agricultural science: Agricultural science is a discipline that studies agricultural production and rural economic development, including agricultural engineering, agricultural resources and environment, agricultural economic management, agricultural biotechnology and other disciplines.

4. Medical and health care: Medical and health care is a discipline that studies human health and disease prevention, including basic medicine, clinical medicine, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine.