On July 27, 2018, China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) of the Ministry of Education announced for the first time China University Professional-degree Rankings. The education level of clinical medicine at AHMU was ranked B-.
The assessment project of professional-degree rankings is entrusted by the Office of the State Council’s Educational Supervision Committee, and is organized and implemented by CDGDC of the Ministry of Education in a third-party manner. The assessment is carried out by the categories of professional degrees and all universities and research institutes in China voluntarily apply for the assessment. On April 8, 2016, CDGDC launched a pilot program for assessing professional-degree educational levels in eight degree categories, including law.
China University Professional-degree Rankings are released in accordance with the principle of “precise calculation and grading presentation”. Based on the ranking percentiles of the overall scores of professional-degree education at respective universities, the professional-degrees ranking the top 75% are assigned into 9 grades: the top 2% (or the top 2) is A+, and the 2% to 7% is A ( 2% excluded, the same below), 7% to 15% A-, 15% to 25% B+, 25% to 35% B, 35% to 45% B-, 45% to 55% C+, 55% to 65% C, and 65% to 75% C-.