Top-quality courses are a pace-setter and a symbolic banner in the construction of the academic courses, and will have an inestimable role in the promotion of the higher education in China. The purpose to conduct top-quality course selection is to help the universities to establish and form the mechanism of course construction and course operation in line with their own contexts, so as to deepen the top course program continuously. The criteria for the assessment of top-quality courses are intended to reflect scientifically the basic features of these courses and guide universities to work hard on these courses and build up initiatively top-quality courses with their own distinctive features.