The main body of running a school and the object of enrollment are important differences between adult college entrance examination, online education and self-taught examination, which will be introduced in detail below.

Different subjects of running schools

All universities have corresponding adult education colleges or continuing education colleges and online education colleges, so the main body of adult college entrance examination and online education is generally universities, but at present, some adult education is run by social forces. Strictly speaking, there is no discipline in running a school, and it depends entirely on individual self-study.

Different enrollment targets

Adult education in China mainly enrolls students who are on-the-job and unemployed, people who have left formal schools and professional technicians and managers who have received higher education, from which we can see that it is a veritable adult education.