Wang Zhanjun is the former Deputy Director of China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center, and the Deputy Director of the former Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education of China. Currently, he holds the position of Director-general of the Center for Graduate Education at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is the Ph.D. supervisor and professor at both Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Technology, and is also the chief expert at the National Natural Science Foundation.
For more than 30 years, Professor Wang has been engaged in the management, teaching, research and evaluation of higher education and graduate education. His main research interests include, but are not limited to, Higher Education Management and Evaluation, Education Development Strategy, and Management Information Systems. He has participated in the planning, developing, and organizing of many national academic degrees and graduate education evaluation projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China. He has also presided over more than 20 projects (completed or ongoing) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, and projects entrusted by the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He has published more than 180 academic papers and numerous books, such as The Theory and Method of Monitoring Evaluation in Higher Education (2017), The Graduate Education Development for 70 Years in China (2019), The Implementation of China Academic Degree System in 40 Years (2021), and Theory and Method of Academic Degrees and Postgraduate Education Evaluation (2012). One of his ongoing research projects is the Management Reform and Research Innovation of Postgraduate Education in the ‘Internet Plus’ Era, which is one of the key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Wang Zhanjun’s main part-time social positions include: Vice-chairman of the Association of Chinese Graduate Education, and Vice-chairman of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Graduate Education (in Chinese).