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jimu news reporter li wanrong

recently, the ministry of education website released the "2024 undergraduate major application materials notice for general colleges and universities". according to the public statistics, 535 new majors were applied for in 2024 by colleges and universities across the country, involving 353 colleges and universities. a total of 21 new majors applied for by 14 colleges and universities in hubei were included in the public notice, of which wuhan university applied to add 4 new majors. the new majors applied for by various schools cover multiple fields such as artificial intelligence and big health, among which the most new majors were applied for in the big health field, such as health and medical insurance majors and geriatric medicine and health majors.

this time, wuhan university applied for four new majors: smart energy engineering, space-time information engineering, smart city and spatial planning, and sports training. three of the majors are closely related to artificial intelligence.

it is reported that since 2020, wuhan university has added 13 majors, including marxist theory, artificial intelligence, data science and big data technology, and intelligent manufacturing engineering, and cancelled 6 majors, including electronic science and technology, internet of things engineering, and property management. this year, zhongnan university of economics and law applied for a new discipline inspection and supervision major. in 2023, the school added an international law major and cancelled information and computing science and national economic management majors. south-central university for nationalities applied for new majors in cyberspace security and health and medical insurance, and wuhan college also applied for a new major in cyberspace security. the college of arts and sciences of hubei normal university applied for a new major in information security.

hubei university has applied for a new digital tourism major, and wuhan institute of physical education has applied for a new digital sports major. hubei police college has applied for a new data policing technology major. the new majors added by various universities are clearly oriented towards artificial intelligence-related fields. in the field of big health, hubei university of arts and sciences has applied for a new oral medicine major, and hubei medical college has applied for new forensic medicine, health and medical insurance, and geriatric medicine and health majors. facing new engineering disciplines, wuchang institute of technology has applied for a new genetic science and technology major; facing new agricultural disciplines, jianghan university has applied for a new biological breeding technology major. in addition, hubei police college has also applied for a new public security political work major, wuhan business school has applied for a new cold chain logistics engineering major, and hubei university of commerce has applied for a new law major.

it is reported that the application materials for new majors announced by the ministry of education will be reviewed by experts and the final results of the addition of majors will be announced in the first quarter of next year. in addition, on march 19 this year, the ministry of education announced the filing and approval results of undergraduate majors in ordinary colleges and universities in 2023, and released the 2024 undergraduate major catalog of ordinary colleges and universities. more than 100 majors have been added to 41 universities in hubei this year.

(source: jimu news)

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