OnDecember 28, the Ministry ofEducation andGraduateEducationDevelopmentCenterrevealed the resultsof the 4th round of thedisciplineevaluation. HUST has44disciplinesparticipated in the evaluation, with14disciplines entered categoryA,among whichMechanicalEngineering,OpticalEngineering,BiomedicalEngineering,PublicHealth andPreventiveMedicine intoA⁺; and 28disciplines enter category B,among which19classifiedB⁺.

The fourth round ofdisciplineevaluation was officially launched on April 22, 2016, which lasted more than a year.There are 7449disciplinesfrom513higher education entities.Unlike the first three rounds,thisroundadopted the a new approach called“classification of the quality category”, noscoresor rankingplacesannounced like before and noemphasis ontheslightfraction difference between the unit and their rankingplaces.According tothis new approach, the first 70%disciplines are classified as ABC, among which the first 10% isA (amongwhich the firsttop2% isA⁺), and the first 40% is B(among whichthe first 10 to 20% is B⁺.