Recently, the State Council Academic Degrees Committee has issued a 2017 list on the addition of the authorization of Doctoral program and Master's program of the first-level discipline. HQU obtains 5 Doctoral programs of the first-level disciplines, namely Philosophy, Applied Economics, Chemistry, Civil Engineering and Architecture, and 4 Master's programs of the first-level disciplines, namely Mathematics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Environmental Science and Engineering and Public Administration.
So far, HQU has obtained authorization of 8 Doctoral programs of the first-level disciplines and 2 Doctoral programs of the second-level disciplines, and 27 Master's programs of the first-level disciplines and 2 Master's programs of the second-level disciplines, together with 20 professional Master's programs. Since 1981 when Fundamental Mathematics was granted the Master's program authorization, degree programs of HQU have covered 8 discipline categories including Philosophy, Economics, Law, Literature, History, Science, Engineering and Management, forming an integrated graduate education system ranging from Master's programs to Doctoral programs, from academic degrees to professional degrees and from full-time programs to part-time programs.