What you said about Marxist theory and ideological and political education seems to be the name of undergraduate course.
In the postgraduate stage, ideological and political education is a two disciplines, which belongs to the first-class discipline of Marxist theory.
School? The six normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education are all good, including Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, Northeast Normal University, Central China Normal University, Shaanxi Normal University and Southwest Normal University (now Southwest University), as well as Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University and Peking University.
Scholar? A lot. The leading figure is Mr. Zhang Yaocan of Huazhong Normal University.