The university began the postgraduate education in 1978, and was authorized for conferring the Master’s degree to the full-time postgraduates in 1986, and to the working staff for the equivalency in 2000. And then in 2008, the university obtained the qualification for recommending the undergraduates and the teaching staff exempting from the National Entrance Examination for their Master’s degrees and courses. The clinical medicine master’s degree training mode reform  of the university was listed as a national education system reform pilot project in 2010.

In 2013, the university was approved as Doctorial Degree Conferring Unit (3 first-level disciplines: Clinical Medicine, Basic Medical Science, Public Health & Preventive Health have been approved for doctoral program).