Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Academic Organizations

Academic Organizations

GSCASS was born to be prestigious because of the outstanding academic resources the CASS has selected and collected from nationwide. It has so far grown up with the widest coverage in research and education spanning Humanity and Social Science areas and has defined its leading momentum among all graduate schools in China. By now, the GSCASS was authorized to confer Doctoral and Master Research Degree in 11 Disciplines, 167 Sub-disciplines of Humanity and Social Science. Original and independent research is a hallmark of GSCASS.

GSCASS is composed of Faculty Committee, Academic Council, Academic Degree Evaluation Committee, 6 Departments, 38 Schools and over 900 faculty members. Typically, a faculty member has at most one student to advise in a period of 3 years. This one-to-one system between teacher and student encourages graduate students to involve in important research programs- usually waged by public. Students are free to embrace more significant experience combining theoretical and practical, as well as deeper emotional communication under such arrangement.

In aspect of International Communication, the GSCASS has established strong academic exchanging programs with prestigious graduate schools all over the world. Oversea programs for non-Chinese speaking students began to run in 1985. The number of degree students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan kept surging from its first opening in 2000.

Compared with other famous graduate school run by university, the scale of GSCASS graduates has always been very small. Up to June 2008, the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of GSCASS has totally conferred 2574 doctoral degrees, 4198 master degrees and 339 professional master degrees. In recent years, The GSCASS enrolls about 260 Doctoral candidates and 182 Master candidates annually. Students come from the mainland of China qualified for application are required to obtain outstanding scores in National Master Entrance Examination or Doctoral Entrance Examination the school held annually. So far, all GSCASS Master Degree candidates are fully financial aided. Ph.D. Candidates, due to the latest policy however, were covered by fund support in a fixed percentage so as to encourage top students to compete extra financial aid by outstanding performance in academic research.