Discipline evaluation refers to the degree and postgraduate education development center of the Ministry of Education (hereinafter referred to as the degree center) to evaluate the overall level of the first-level disciplines with the right to award doctoral or master's degrees in China according to the Catalogue of Degree and Talent Training issued by the the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education.
Purpose of evaluation:
1. Serve the overall situation, implement the spirit of "encouraging specialized agencies and social intermediary institutions to evaluate disciplines, majors, curriculum level and quality of institutions of higher learning" put forward in the outline of the national education plan, and serve the overall situation of "improving quality, optimizing structure, encouraging characteristics and collaborative innovation" in graduate education;
2. Serving colleges and universities, through the evaluation of the effectiveness and quality of discipline construction, helping colleges and universities understand the current situation and advantages and disadvantages of disciplines, promoting the connotation construction of disciplines, and improving the quality of postgraduate training and degree awarding;
3. Serve the society, provide objective subject level information, and provide reference for students' enrollment, subject and social talent flow.