The ace majors of Jilin University are pharmacology and toxicology, immunology, agricultural science, zoology and botany, mathematics, environment and ecology, materials processing engineering, microelectronics and solid-state electronics, computer software and theory, chemistry, materials science, physics, clinical medicine, biology and biochemistry, earth science, engineering, molecular biology and genetics, quantitative economics, legal theory, criminal law and so on.

Major of key disciplines in Jilin University

National specialty construction sites: law, Korean, journalism, resource exploration engineering, plant protection, clinical medicine, philosophy, chemistry, vehicle engineering, radiation medicine, economics, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, Chinese language and literature, mechanical engineering and automation, exploration technology and engineering, and pharmaceutical engineering (biopharmaceuticals).

Political science and administration, archaeology, material forming and control engineering, groundwater science and engineering, financial management, computer science and technology, measurement and control technology and instruments, polymer materials and engineering, geology.

World-class discipline construction disciplines: archaeology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering. First-class discipline National key discipline: mathematics (covering basic mathematics, computational mathematics, probability theory and mathematical statistics, applied mathematics, operational research and cybernetics), chemistry (covering inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry and physical chemistry.