Recently, the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Publishing the List of National and Provincial First-class Undergraduate Majors 2020 (No.7 [2021] of the Department of Higher Education) was released, which contains a list of national and provincial first-class undergraduate majors in 2020, adding 24 undergraduate majors of Tsinghua University to the list of national first-class undergraduate majors. Three majors of the School of Social Sciences are on the list, one of the highest among the schools and institutes of Tsinghua.
The three majors are International Politics, Social Sciences, and Economics.
Adhering to the academic tradition of “synthesizing Chinese and Western knowledge, and combining arts and sciences”, the School of Social Sciences pursues the schooling concept of “inheriting the scientific spirit while improving social awareness” and bears the mission of “laying a solid foundation, cultivating talents, contributing to society and influencing the world”. It remains a domestic leader in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services, innovation in cultural traditions, and international exchanges and cooperation. By taking the opportunity of the construction of national first-class undergraduate majors, the School of Social Sciences will continue to deepen the reform and innovation in undergraduate education and teaching, give full play to the exemplary and leading role of first-class undergraduate majors, significantly improve the quality of discipline construction and talent training, and explore a system of fostering virtue through education that features “talent cultivation by major category, integration of general and specialized education, and targeted cultivation”.
