Generally speaking, the number of party member is directly proportional to the school gradient. Postgraduate entrance examination, examination of prestigious schools, relatively more resources.

The National Key Marxist College is a project put forward in the Innovative Scheme of Ideological and Political Theory Course Construction System in Colleges and Universities jointly issued by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Education in June 20 15. The list of the first batch of national key Marxist colleges includes 9 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, China Renmin University, Nankai University, Jilin University, Fudan University, Shandong University, Wuhan University and Lanzhou University.

On March 20 17, the second batch of national key Marxist universities was announced, including Beijing Normal University, Dalian University of Technology, Northeast Normal University, East China Normal University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Fujian Normal University, Zhengzhou University, Sun Yat-sen University, Sichuan University, Xi Jiaotong University, Xinjiang Normal University, etc. 12 universities.