The Graduate Department is the competent department of the graduate education of IUE and is also the secretary institution of the Academic Degrees Committee. The main responsibilities are:

1. to implement the guidelines and policies for degree and postgraduate education of the State, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fujian Province, etc., to formulate the medium and long-term development plan for postgraduate education in accordance with the development strategy of IUE;

2. to develop and implement postgraduate training programs and variously manage rules and regulations. According to that, organizing the application of master and doctoral cultivation and conducting disciplinary assessment and key discipline declaration;

3. to undertake the relevant work of enrollment, training, student management, etc. of the Fujian College of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to organize the tutor qualification review, selection and training;

4. to prepare and implement the annual graduate recruitment plan and to manage the external recruitment, publicity consulting work and the whole process of enrollment, including joint training of graduate students by IUE and universities, science and education integration plan, joint training of undergraduates, recruitment and training of international students, and the selection of international student scholarships;

5. to manage postgraduate student status, graduate study abroad and graduate apartment accommodation, to organize and implement teaching of postgraduate courses;

6. to organize and supervise the thesis work, qualification examination and degree awarding of equivalent academic personnel;

7. to guide graduate employment and graduation assignment, to manage alumni liaison and alumni association, to organise postgraduate moral education and carry out various public welfare activities and cultural and sports activities;

8. to organize the selection, declaration and distribution of various scholarships and actively promote the establishment of social strength scholarships, to organize the selection of outstanding students and other awards;

9. to manage postgraduate medical insurance and file, to maintain and calculate educational information and related ARP system;

10. to assist in the undergraduate enrollment work of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to manage Academic Degree Committee and implement other related tasks.