The Institute of Disaster Prevention (IDP), an arm of the China Earthquake Administration, is the only higher education institute in China focused on disaster prevention, reduction and relief. Established in 1975, it enrolls students from all over the country. Currently, there are more than 8600 full-time students.
Specializing in the field of disaster prevention and reduction and geared to the needs of emergency management and economic and social development, IDP has developed a multi-level modern education system offering undergraduate, postgraduate, adult continuing education programs as well as vocational training.
We offer disaster-related undergraduate degree programs, covering five disciplines of science, engineering, management, literature and economics. Among them, there are 11 central programs (geophysics, geology, natural resources prospecting engineering, groundwater science and engineering, prospecting technology and engineering, civil engineering, mapping engineering, geological engineering, urban underground space engineering, hydroengineering, emergency technology and management), 13 supporting programs (engineering management, electrical engineering and automation, measurement and control technology and instrumentation, computer science and technology, network engineering, information management and information system, communication engineering, geographic science, IOT engineering, data science and big data technology, applied psychology, public utilities management, environmental engineering), and 8 extended programs (finance, investment, accounting, business administration, Chinese language and literature, advertising, network and new media, and English).
IDP has been listed as a pilot unit for professional master’s programs that serve the special needs of the country by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. We offer a professional master’s program in resources and environment with areas of specialization like earthquake dynamics and earth exploration technology, geological resources and disaster geology, disaster prevention and reduction engineering, groundwater engineering and seismic fluid dynamics, disaster monitoring technology and engineering safety, disaster information processing technology, disaster risk assessment and disaster prevention and reduction planning.
IDP is a national-level continuing education base for professional and technical personnel and one of the universities to implement the Excellent Engineer Development Plan. It has one national-level characteristic degree program, one national outstanding teachers’ team, and nine provincial teaching teams. It has undertaken construction projects like a provincial disaster prevention and reduction technology innovation and talent training center, provincial key disciplines, provincial key developing disciplines, ministerial and provincial key laboratories, and laboratories for international cooperation among others. In the past five years, IDP has undertaken more than 600 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, the National Science and Technology Plans, the National 863 Plan, the Special Fund for Public Welfare Sectors, and the Spark Program for Earthquake Science and Technology. Our researchers have won a 2nd Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and 16 ministerial and provincial level science and technology achievement awards.
IDP has made a commitment to the highest quality of research in eight disaster-related fields, namely, earthquake precursory background field, geotechnical engineering earthquake resistance, urban earthquake prevention and reduction planning, urban earthquake prediction, seismogeological disaster, seismic observation information processing, earthquake precursory observation instruments, disaster risk and e
