Abstract:Under the background of carrying forward the innovative national strategy, the status of research universities in the national scientific research career is more and more important. At the same time, the role of research-oriented president has become an increasingly important and the significance of evaluation of research-oriented president is also growing. Aiming at the problems existing in evaluation system of research-oriented president, such as the same evaluating indicator, the broad evaluating indicator, relatively single evaluation subject and relatively sample evaluation method, we construct the competency model of research-oriented president in research university based on analyzing the content and mothed of the evaluation system of research-oriented president. Then we apply the competency model to the process of evaluation, and provide reference to method of check and evaluation of research-oriented president and other posts of leading cadres.