Academic qualifications refer to people's learning experience of receiving scientific and cultural knowledge training in educational institutions. It refers to a person's last and highest-level learning experience, which is proved by academic certificates issued by schools and other educational institutions that are approved by the administrative department of education and have the power to issue diplomas recognized by the state. The qualifications involved in this consultation refer to the national education series.

China's "Nine-year Compulsory Education Law" stipulates that primary school lasts for six years, middle school lasts for three years, which is exactly nine years, followed by high school for three years, junior college for three years (undergraduate course for four years), postgraduate for three years and four years, depending on the major, and then doctors and postdocs.