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Teaching Excellence: 32 NWU Majors Listed among the National First-Class Undergraduate Major Construction Programs

The Ministry of Education in China (MOE) has announced its list of 2020 National and Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Major Construction Programs. Eight NWU undergraduate majors including Finance, Heritage Protection and Applied Chemistry, are approved as the National First-Class Undergraduate Programs. Seven undergraduate majors are selected as the Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Programs: English, Advertising and Bio-technology. 

To date, NWU has 32 national first-class undergraduate majors sponsored by MOE, and 14 on the provincial level. Nearly 52% of the total number of NWU undergraduate majors are shortlisted for this honour, covering nine major disciplines of Literature, History, Philosophy, Economics, Management, Science, Engineering and Art.

First-class undergraduate majors, with huge potential to nourish excellent talents, lay the very foundation for shaping NWU into a first-class university. During its Fourteenth Five-Year Plan of Development period (2021-2025) and with its aim to build a high-quality tertiary education system, NWU keeps endeavoring to upgrading the structure of its undergraduate majors, adjusting and innovating its undergraduate majors, deepening its reform on teaching, and advancing the progress of overall majors. In so doing, NWU will speed up the creation of first-class clusters of undergraduate majors with distinctive NWU characteristics, and provide strong support for NWU’s ‘Double First-Class’ development.  

First-class undergraduate majors, with huge potential to nourish excellent talents, lay the very foundation for shaping NWU into a first-class university. During its Fourteenth Five-Year Plan of Development period (2021-2025) and aiming to build a high-quality tertiary education system, NWU continuously endeavors to upgrades the structure of its undergraduate majors, makes adjustments to and innovations to its undergraduate majors, deepens its reform of teaching, and accelerates the progress of majors as a whole. In so doing, NWU will speed up the creation of first-class clusters of undergraduate majors with distinctive NWU characteristics, and provide strong support for NWU’s ‘Double First-Class’ development.