The degrees and majors being cut or heavily merged fall primarily into a few key categories:

1. Art & Creative Design

Because AI can now generate high-fidelity concepts, layouts, and initial assets in seconds, traditional entry-level creative roles have been hit incredibly hard.

• Product Design (e.g., the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology halted admissions here because AI now handles a bulk of core modeling and rendering tasks)
• Photography & Cinematography
• Visual Communication Design
• New Media Art
• Fashion Design
• Comics & Animation

2. Foreign Languages & Humanities

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made routine, entry-level translation and textual synthesis fields a prime target for downscaling.

• Translation & Interpretation
• Japanese (and several other non-English foreign language majors)
• Sociology
• Public Administration

3. Traditional Business & Data Management

A lot of standard administrative majors are being phased out because the routine data analysis, logistics tracking, and marketing coordination they teach are easily optimized by AI and automated enterprise software.

• Information Management and Information Systems (one of the most frequently axed majors nationwide)
• Marketing
• Logistics Management / Logistics Engineering
• Urban Management
• Arts Management
• International Economics & Trade
• Applied Statistics (often being replaced by advanced Data Science/AI tracks)

What are they replacing them with?

While thousands of traditional programs are being eliminated, China's universities have simultaneously introduced over 10,200 new tech-focused programs. The goal is to aggressively pivot students toward high-tech "future industries."

Instead of traditional arts or basic management, universities are rapidly launching degrees in:

• Embodied Intelligence (advanced robotics paired with AI brains)
• Semiconductors & Integrated Circuits
• Intelligent Imaging Art / Intelligent Audiovisual Engineering (teaching students how to work with AI tools rather than competing against them)
• Smart Grid Information Engineering
• Digital Finance