The Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Open University of China (OUC) was founded in 2019 from the former School of Arts and Law, which had been founded in 1982 as the Department of Liberal Arts. Mr. Yuan Songhe is currently its executive vice dean.

The faculty comprises the Schools of Public Administration (Zhao Juqiang, director), Law (Hu Xiaoyu, executive deputy director), Sociology (Sun Jiangtao, executive deputy director) and Administrative Office (Li Yang, director).

The School of Public Administration offers two undergraduate programmes in Administrative Management (one taking junior-college graduates, the other high-school graduates), and one junior-college programme (Rural-village Management orientation). The School of Law offers two undergraduate programmes in Law with the same prerequisites, and one junior-college programme, in Legal Affairs, that accepts high-school graduates. The School of Sociology offers one undergraduate and one junior-college (Elder-services orientation) programme in Social Work, admitting respectively junior-college and high-school graduates. In addition, the faculty offers one junior-college programme in Movie and TV Animation, admitting high-school graduates. The programmes of Administrative Management and Law are the ones the OUC is focusing on for development.

The faculty currently has 18 full-time tutors, 12 of whom have doctoral degrees: two professors, seven associate professors, and nine lecturers. In addition, it has hired a number of accomplished and experienced scholars from domestic institutions of higher learning nationwide as chief lecturers and textbook editors.

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Add: Faculty of Political Science and Law, No. 75 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China 100039

Tel: 86-10-57519143

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