A university is often divided into various colleges, such as School of Economics and Management and Law School. The college is divided into departments, such as mathematics department, physics department and economics department. Of course, some schools don't have departments, and there are various professional courses under the departments.

Each department is relatively independent, with its own teaching, party-mass and student management departments.

1. Departments, colleges and departments in universities are all administrative units at the first level, and they belong to the relationship of hierarchical jurisdiction.

2. Before the tide of university merger in 2000, the scale of each university was not particularly large, so there was no concept of department. Basically, all universities are under the framework of the whole university, and the college or department is the next administrative unit. Some universities have two-level university colleges, some have two-level university departments, and some have three administrative units.

3. With the continuous merger and expansion of colleges and universities, the volume of a single college is getting bigger and bigger, and the previous simple 2-3 administrative levels can no longer meet the needs, so the department was born.

At present, the administrative level of some large-scale colleges and universities has been expanded to a four-level structure of university-department-college-department. Under the jurisdiction of different levels, universities manage several departments, each department manages several colleges, and each college manages several departments. Of course, there are also some small universities or two-level administrative institutions.

4. With the improvement of management level, the administrative cost of the school is also increasing, and the communication cost is also increasing gradually. Although the management scope meets the needs, there are some problems in management efficiency, which will become one of the research topics of many universities in the near future.

Extended data

There are two main interpretations of the original academic department in China: one is the official department in charge of national academic affairs in the late Qing Dynasty, which was changed to the Ministry of Education after the Republic of China; Second, it refers to the institutions set up by disciplines in China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, which are composed of several academicians (formerly known as the Department of Education), and academicians are famous scientists inside and outside the institute.

1905 12. In the late Qing Dynasty, the department of the highest educational administrative institution in China was formally established, with five departments, namely, general affairs, specialist, general affairs, industry and accounting, and a affairs department, each of which is divided into several departments. The following year, imperial academy merged, and there were Compiling Library Bureau, Shi Jing Supervision Bureau, Academic System Investigation Bureau, Higher Education Conference Office and Education Research Institute. After the Revolution of 1911, it was changed to the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China.

The academic department is the first formal, independent and specialized central educational administrative institution in the history of our country. It is the product of the education reform in the late Qing Dynasty, which not only marks the establishment of the modern central education administration in China, but also has a milestone significance in the history of education in China.

The Faculty Committee of China Academy of Sciences was established in 1955, and now has six faculties: mathematical physics, chemistry, life science and medicine, geology, information technology and technology.

China Institute of Technology was founded in 1994 and now has 9 departments. The establishment of this department has played a particularly positive role in the process of scientific institutionalization in contemporary China, and has become an important part of the whole scientific system. However, with the change of the department's status, its functions become more and more vague.

Abroad, many colleges and universities have a department, but this "department" is not the two "departments" in China mentioned above. Although the departments of different universities are different in concept definition and different in practice, it is obvious that they are all committed to promoting interdisciplinary development.

How to achieve the goal or function of "promoting interdisciplinary development" is a common problem that every university department should consider.

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