Founded on April 22, 2009, the academy is one of the seven founding institutions of the national key Marxism college, the birthplace of the national ideological and moral course, the National Undergraduate Major of Ideological and Political Education (double degree class), and one of the first ten institutions with the right to grant master's degree in ideological and political education in China. It has created the "DUT mode" of Ideological and political case teaching, middle class teaching and small class discussion.