Recently, the Academic Degree Commission under the State Council released the list of the 2010 newly-increased audited Doctorate and Master's Degree authorization first-level discipline. Eight doctorate authorization first-level discipline and six Master's degree authorization first-level degree which NENU audited and reported on its own were authorized. Now the doctorate authorization first-level discipline of NENU increased from nine to seventeen and the Master's degree authorization first-level degree increased from eighteen to twenty-four.
(From News Center, translated by Yan Liang, revised by Jiang Yansheng)