国防科技大学

When the Military Academy of Engineering was in Harbin, the university started piloting graduate education, making the university one of the earliest military academies offering graduate degrees. Along with the historical development of national defense and military modernization our graduate education has made important contributions to the development of national defense and military modernization. It has become an important base for the nurturing of top PLA personnel. The university has contributed 13,101 Masters and 1,965 PhDs to the development of the national defense and the military, with 5,954 graduates including 2,236 PhD candidates on campus. The university was one of the 22 institutions approved by the State Council to establish graduate school after graduate education was restored in China in 1978. In 1996, the Graduate School of NUDT passed the national examination and hung out its ‘shingle’ with the approval of the State Council and Central Military Commission.