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 national education planning, and serve the overall situation of "improving quality, optimizing structure, encouraging characteristics and collaborative innovation" in postgraduate education.
2. Serve colleges and universities, through the evaluation of the effectiveness and quality of discipline construction, help colleges and universities understand the current situation and advantages and disadvantages of disciplines, promote the connotation construction of disciplines, and improve 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.