The Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council issued the "Notice of the Academic Degree Committee on Approving the List of Authorized Doctor and Master Degrees Programs Added in 2017" lately and formally announced the results of the 2017 degree authorization. 5 disciplines including mechanics, electrical engineering, computer science and technology, clinical medicine, and science and technology have been granted the right to confer Doctor degrees among the first-level disciplines 9 disciplines including Philosophy, Law, Chinese Language and Literature, Foreign Languages and Literature, Physics, and Metallurgical Engineering, Information, Communication and Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy have been granted the right to confer Master degrees among the first-level discipline. And the library and information also have been approved as the Professional Master degree progresses. The number of Doctor programs added ranks 23rd in the country and 2ndin Jiangsu province. The number of Master programs added ranks 4th in the country and 2nd in Jiangsu.

At present, our university has 14 first-level discipline Doctor programs, 44 first-level discipline Master programs, and 12 Master-level professional-degree programs, covering engineering, science, medicine, management, economics, philosophy, law, literature, teaching, arts and etc.

Our university firmly seized the historical opportunity when the state started the degree reassessment again after several years. It carefully organized through the coordinated cooperation between the schools and successfully completed the application. The university will use there additional programs as an opportunity to further strengthen the top-level design of the university’s discipline development, continue to optimize the layout of disciplines, effectively strengthen the connotation of the discipline, and vigorously promote the cross-convergence and innovation of disciplines, so as to push forward the construction of First-Rate University and First-Rate Discipline.