1.CDR (China discipline ranking) refers to the overall level evaluation of the first-level disciplines. The purpose of evaluation is to serve the overall situation, universities and society.
2. First, serve the overall situation, carry out the spirit of encouraging specialized agencies and social intermediary institutions to evaluate the discipline, specialty and curriculum level and quality of colleges and universities, and serve the overall situation of improving the quality, optimizing the structure, encouraging characteristics and collaborative innovation of graduate education.
3. The second is to serve colleges and universities. Through the evaluation of the effectiveness and quality of discipline construction, it can help universities understand the current situation, advantages and disadvantages of discipline construction, promote the construction of discipline connotation, and improve the quality of postgraduate training and degree awarding.
4. The third is to serve the society, provide objective information at the discipline level, and provide reference for students' enrollment, discipline and social talent flow.
5. On the basis of extensive investigation and soliciting experts' opinions, and in line with the purpose of serving the discipline development and society of degree-granting units, the evaluation institute carried out nationwide discipline evaluation in 2002, and published news or partial rankings in China Postgraduate Magazine, the website of the Center for Degree and Postgraduate Education Development of the Ministry of Education, China Education News and Guangming Daily.