LZU’s postgraduate education began in 1954. From 1954 to 1968, LZU trained a total of 68 postgraduate students. It was only until 1978 that postgraduate education at LZU was restored. After the implementation of the national degree system in 1981, with the approval of the State Council, LZU became the first group of institutions to confer doctoral and master's degrees. Since then, LZU’s postgraduate education has entered a new track of healthy development. In June 2000, the Ministry of Education (MOE) approved the trial-run of the postgraduate school of LZU. In May 2004, MOE officially authorized the establishment of LZU’s postgraduate school. In 2010, LZU became one of the 58 degree-granting institutes with the autonomous power of establishing first-level disciplines for both doctoral and master’s degrees.