Recently, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council issued the Notice on Issuing the List of Degree Authorization Programs Subject to Dynamic Adjustment through Revocations and Additions in 2024 (Degree [2025] No. 9). SDUT has been newly granted three master’s degree authorization programs in Nanoscience and Engineering, Digital Economy, and Design, while the authorization of the Master of International Business professional degree category has been revoked.
In 2023, five ministries including the Ministry of Education issuedthe Reform Plan for the Optimization and Adjustment of Academic Program Settings in Regular Higher Education, explicitly proposing to optimize and adjust approximately 20% of academic programs in higher education institutions by 2025. In 2025, the Central Leading Group for Education Work issued the Action Plan for Optimization the Adjustment of Academic Program Settings in Higher Education (2025-2027), which clearly calls for differentiated advancement in the layout and development of foundational, applied, and strategic disciplines and programs, and promoting the optimization and adjustment of academic program settings.
Since the implementation of the national dynamic adjustment measures for degree authorization programs during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, SDUT has actively carried out dynamic adjustments to its degree authorization programs: it has taken the initiative to revoke 10 master’s degree authorization programs and independently added 9 master’s programs covering foundational disciplines and emerging interdisciplinary fields such as Physics and Nanoscience and Engineering. Furthermore, emerging professional degree fields including Artificial Intelligence, Robotics Engineering, Big Data Technology and Engineering, and New Generation Electronic Information Technology (including Quantum Technology, etc.) have been established under professional degree categories. Through these efforts, SDUT has optimized and adjusted 37.25% of its academic programs.
Currently, science and engineering disciplines account for 72% of all disciplines at SDUT. Moving forward, SDUT will closely align with national strategic imperatives and the needs of economic and social development, strengthen forward-looking planning, continuously advance the optimization and adjustment of the disciplinary layout, and steadily enhance the support role and contribution to the high-quality development of the university.