On October 15, ShanghaiRanking released the “2024 China’s Best Disciplines Ranking”. SDFMU had five disciplines listed, namely Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Basic Medicine, Biology, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy ranked in the top 30% nationally and were both ranked first among provincial universities. The rankings of the other disciplines steadily improved.
The China’s Best Disciplines Ranking is based on an indicator system that includes five categories: talent training, platform projects, awards for achievements, academic publications, and high-end talents, with 18 specific indicators and over 70 measurement variables. The ranking uses the classification of disciplines outlined in the “Directory of Graduate Education Disciplines and Programs (2022)” issued by the State Council’s Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education. Within each first-level discipline, the ranking includes all universities that have authorized academic graduate degree programs in that discipline as of the end of 2023, covering both first-level and second-level disciplines. The ranking includes universities that are in the top 50% of each discipline.The 2024 ranking covers 94 first-level disciplines and involves 486 universities with 4,924 degree programs.
In recent years, SDFMU has adhered to the strategy of “discipline-driven development”, vigorously implementing the “135 Project” and the “2024·6610 Action Plan”. The university is guided by the goal of achieving “Double First-Class”status, maintaining an integrated approach to education, science, and talent development. It continues to optimize the coordination of teaching, research, and medical resources while ensuring steady investment in discipline construction.Through strengthening strategic decision-making and top-level design in discipline development, SDFMU has focused on attracting and cultivating discipline leaders, promoting interdisciplinary integration, and creating synergy in discipline construction. The university also emphasizes improving research levels, enhancing original innovation capabilities, and facilitating the transfer and transformation of research outcomes. In terms of faculty development, the university promotes both faculty introduction and cultivation, advancing reforms in the faculty development mechanism. Additionally, SDFMU focuses on improving educational and teaching quality, upholding the principle of nurturing both moral character and professional skills to cultivate outstanding medical talents. As a result, the core competitiveness and social impact of its disciplines have steadily increased, laying a solid foundation for the university’s “Double First-Class” development.
