Abstract: In order to raise the level of education development in China and strengthen the core competitiveness of the country, the main task of universities is to promote the construction of world-class universities and first-class disciplines. Therefore, how to build the first-class discipline more efficiently and cultivate the practical ability and comprehensive quality of the first-class discipline talents is a problem attracting much attention nowadays. Through the methods of case analysis, investigation and literature research, this paper explored and powders the competitive education model of the first-class disciplines in foreign countries and analyzes the excellent competition management system, competition process and reward system in foreign countries, provide experience enlightenment for domestic colleges and universities. To promote the exploration of domestic colleges and universities in practice to cultivate more comprehensive quality talents, accelerate exchanges and cooperation among colleges and universities, common development, give full play to the subject competition to enhance the overall ability of students.

Key words: Subject competition, personnel training, First-class subject, Education mode