Independent colleges refer to universities that cooperate with social organizations or individuals outside state institutions and use non-state financial funds to implement undergraduate education, so the tuition fees of independent colleges are three to four times that of public universities.

Independent colleges are an important part of private higher education, belonging to public welfare undertakings, and enjoy various awards and support policies stipulated in the Private Education Promotion Law and the Implementation Regulations of the Private Education Promotion Law according to law; The education administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be in charge of the work of independent colleges within their respective administrative areas. As of February 25th, 20 17, 17, there were 260 independent colleges in China.

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Private schools and non-private schools distinguish the main body of running schools. Private schools have three obvious characteristics:

1, the organizer is not a national institution;

2. The funds come from non-state-owned financial funds;

3. Running a school for the society means recruiting students and students for the society and serving unspecified groups and individual citizens, not just recruiting people from a certain group, enterprise, industry, system and specific groups as students or students.

From the reality, the organizers of private schools mainly include: individual citizens, private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, collective economic organizations, state-owned enterprises, institutions and social groups. From the source of funds, there are personal self-financing, personal intellectual investment (no capital investment), personal and enterprise investment, fund-raising or shareholding, donation and so on.

For a specific private school, the source of funds is not completely single, but a mixture of individual, collective and enterprise funds. At the same time, non-financial funds do not rule out the injection of state-owned assets.

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