A Brief Introduction tothe Postgraduate Education in HIT
Founded in 1920, Harbin Institute of Technology was one of the first universities that started the postgraduate education. Early in the 1950s, led by the National Department of Higher Education, HIT began to enroll postgraduates, aiming at training teachers for other universities and preparing talented people for going abroad. After China resumed the national postgraduate enrollment in 1978 and implemented the academic degree system in 1981, the postgraduate education witnessed rapid development in HIT.
Founded in September, 1984, the Postgraduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology was one of the postgraduate schools approved by the State Council as a trial run; it was also one of the first experimental units in China to allow the in-service people to apply for the doctor’s and master’s degrees with the same record of formal schooling, to train people for MBA, and to examine and approve doctoral supervisors in its own way. Now, focusing on science and engineering, combining science and engineering with management and liberal arts, and setting the multi-disciplinary framework for the education and training, the postgraduate school has developed into one of the China’s important bases for training highly educated people with specialized knowledge. In the first national evaluation of postgraduate schools in 1995, the HIT postgraduate school became one of the best ten, and in 1999 won the title 'The Advanced Collective for the Management of the Academic Degrees and the Postgraduate Education'.
To adapt to the needs of national economic development, the HIT postgraduate school, by consulting the advanced international mode and taking into consideration our own national situation, has initiated the exploration and reform of the two-year educational system for the postgraduates since 1994. Through the years of practice, the postgraduate school has accumulated rich experience and made satisfactory achievements, thus having boosted the nation-wide implementation of the two-year educational system in other universities.
In recent years, the HIT postgraduate school has been continuing its research and reforms, and has established and perfected its management system for the postgraduate education by designing the scientific curriculums, renewing the teaching contents, reforming the teaching methods, screening the most qualified candidates for master study, recommending the excellent undergraduates directly for doctoral study, implementing the responsibility system of the supervisors for the postgraduate students, and exercising the quality control of the training of the postgraduate students for master’s degrees.
Up till now, HIT has 143 programs for master’s students and 81 for doctoral students. The postgraduate school has 621 supervisors for doctoral students and 1474 supervisors for master’s students. At present, the university enrolls 4,900 students for master’s and doctor’s degrees every year, including 940 doctoral students, and the total number of the postgraduates studying at the school has come up to more than 12,500.
The postgraduate school has established wide relationship with the institutions of higher learning in 30 countries and regions to extensively conduct the academic exchange and the joint education of the postgraduates. At the same time, the postgraduate school actively push forward the globalization of the postgraduate education by enrolling the students for master’s and doctor’s degrees from many other countries, and the regions like Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Graduate Programs
* Philosophy of Marxism
* Chinese Philosophy
* Foreign Philosophies
* Logic
* Ethics
* Aesthetics
* Science of Religion
* Philosophy of Science and Technology
* Political Economy
* World Economics
* National Economics
* Regional Economics
* Public Finance (including Taxation)
* Finance (including Insurance)
* Industrial Economics
* International Trade
* Labor Economics
* Statistics
* Quantitative Economics
* National Defense Economics
* International law (including International Public law, International Private Law and International Economic Law)
* History of the Communist Party of China(including the Doctrine of China Party and Party Building)
* Sociology
* Demography
* Anthropology
* Folklore (including Chinese Folk Literature)
* Primary Marxist Principles
* History of Marxism
* Sinorization of Marxism
* Marxism Abroad
* Education in Ideology and Politics
* Theory of Sports Pedagogy and Training
* English Language and Literature
* Russian Language and Literature
* Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Foreign Languages
* Art
* Artistic Design
* Radio and television Art
* Modern and Contemporary Chinese History
* Fundamental Mathematics
* Computational Mathematics
* Probability and Mathematical Statistics
* Applied mathematics
* Operational Research and Cybernetics
* Theoretical Physics
* Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics
* Atomic and Molecular Physics
* Plasma Physics
* Condensed Matter Physics
* Acoustics
* Optics
* Radio Physics
* Inorganic Chemistry
* Physical Chemistry (including Chemical Physics)
* Chemistry and Physics of Polymers
* Microbiology
* Genetics
* Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
* History of Science and Technology
* General and Fundamental Mechanics
* Solid Mechanics
* Fluid Mechanics
* Engineering Mechanics
* Mechanical Manufacture and Automation
* Mechatronic Engineering
* Mechanical Design and Theory
* Vehicle Engineering
* Astronavigation Devices and Control
* Optical Engineering
* Measuring and Testing Technologies and Instruments
* Photoelectronic Information Technology and Instrument Engineering
* Bio-medical Devices and Engineering
* Materials Physics and Chemistry
* Materialogy
* Materials Processing Engineering
* Astronavigation Materials and Processing
* Engineering Thermophysics
* Thermal Power Engineering
* Power Machinery and Engineering
* Fluid Machinery and Engineering
* Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering
* Chemical Process Equipment
* Electric Machines and Electric Apparatus
* Power System and its Automation
* High Voltage and Insulation Technology
* Power Electronics and Power Drives
* Theory and New Technology of Electrical Engineering
* Physical Electronics
* Circuits and Systems
* Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics
* Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology
* Communication and Information Systems
* Signal and Information Processing
* Control Theory and Control Engineering
* Detection Technology and Automatic Equipment
* Systems Engineering
* Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems
* Navigation, Guidance and Control
* Computer Systems Organization
* Computer Software and Theory
* Computer Applied Technology
* Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing
* Information Security
* Digital Media Techology and Art
* Architectural History and Theory
* Architectural Design and Theory
* Urban Planning and Design (including Landscape Planning and Design)
* Building Technology Science
* Geotechnical Engineering
* Structural Engineering
* Municipal Engineering
* Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineering
* Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering and Protective Engineering
* Bridge and Tunnel Engineering
* Urban Water Resources
* Hydraulics and River Dynamics
* Chemical Engineering
* Chemical Technology
* Biochemical Engineering
* Applied Chemistry
* Industrial Catalysis
* Highway and Railway Engineering
* Traffic Information Engineering & Control
* Transportation Planning and Management
* Vehicle Operation Engineering
* Flight Vehicle Design
* Aerospace Propulsion Theory and Engineering
* Manufacturing Engineering of Aerospace Vehicle
* Man-Machine and Environmental Engineering
* The Structure and Protection of Flight Vehicles
* Astronavigational Photoelectronic Information Technology
* Environmental Science
* Environmental Engineering
* Environmental Microbes
* Biomedical Engineering
* Food Science
Management Science and Engineering
* Social Projects and Management
* Accounting
* Corporate Management (including Financial Management, Marketing, and Human Resources Management)
* Tourist Management
* Technology Economy and Management
* Administration Management
* Social Medicine and Health Management
* Educational Economy and Management
* Social Security
* Land Resource Management
