USST Approved 12 More First-Class Provincial or National Undergraduate Major Construction Sites

Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Education has released the 2021 list of provincial and national first-class undergraduate major construction sites. 6 majors from USST, namely, English, Computer Science and Technology, Food Science and Engineering, Medical Imaging Technology, Business Administration, and Product Design, are included in the national first-class undergraduate major construction sites while 6 other majors, that is, German, Applied Physics, Civil Engineering, Food Quality and Safety, Industrial Engineering, and Environmental Design, are included in the provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Shanghai City. Up to now, USST has 20 national first-class and 13 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, accounting for about 55% of the undergraduate majors, covering roughly all its schools.

In 2019, the Ministry of Education first launched the “Double 10,000 Project” for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors, a significant measure to push forward the construction of New Engineering Discipline, New Medical Discipline, New Agricultural Discipline, and New Liberal Arts, and to strengthen first-class undergraduates, construct first-class majors, and cultivate first-class students in order to revitalize undergraduate education in an all-around way, improve student cultivation capacity at institutions of higher education, and realize the connotative development of higher education. The main task is to construct about 10,000 national-level first-class undergraduate majors and about 10,000 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors between 2019-2021.

USST will continue to promote the optimization and adjustment of the structure of its majors, actively carry out the activities of the evaluation and certification of its majors, and further push forward the construction of its first-class undergraduate programs. In this way, the demonstrative and radiative role of our first-class undergraduate major construction sites will be brought into full play to deepen our education and teaching reforms and continuously improve the quality of our student education.