Abstract: University humanities and social science award of the ministry of education, as the “indicator” of the development of humanities and social science, has important social evaluation function and the award data of the first five confirm the development and change of university humanities and social science in the past three decedes. The statistics of the previous university humanities and social science awards shows that the traditional preponderant disciplines gradually become weaker and the pattern of new core disciplines is tending to form, that award-winning achievements highly gather in research universities, local universities stand out and the development with the characteristics of variation is becoming the orientation, that university humanities and social science award leads scholars to consciously make academic high-quality goods and humanities and social science award mechanism needs immediate improvement and that there is a larger space for multidisciplinary research and interdisciplinary research is one of the important development trends in the future.