Ideological and political education is both law and politics. In law, the first-level discipline is Marxist theory, and the ideological and political education is two disciplines. It belongs to the political discipline in the postgraduate entrance examination and belongs to the education category in the civil service examination.

The research object of ideological and political education is people. It studies the law of the formation, development and change of people's ideological morality and the law of ideological and political education. The theoretical basis of modern ideological and political education in China is Marxism, and it draws lessons from the theories and methods of politics, pedagogy, ethics, psychology, sociology and other disciplines. This subject emphasizes the integration of theory with practice and is a comprehensive applied subject. Its main research directions are: research on the principles and methods of ideological and political education, theoretical research on ideological and political education of Marxist classic writers, research on the history of ideological and political education in China and comparative research on ideological and political education at home and abroad.