Department level. According to the inquiry of official website of Taiyuan University, Taiyuan University is organized by Taiyuan Municipal People's Government and belongs to the main hall class, so the Party Secretary of Taiyuan University belongs to the main hall class. Taiyuan University is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning approved by the people of China and the Ministry of Education. Its predecessor was Taiyuan College, which was founded in 1984 and upgraded to a comprehensive general undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education on 20 13, and was renamed Taiyuan College.