Different degrees of recognition
Social recognition is not high.
Different test objects
The object of the unified examination is only ordinary college graduates from all provinces, municipalities directly under the central government and full-time ordinary colleges and universities (unified examination), while the joint examination is to select qualified graduates from adult colleges and universities in China to enter a higher level of academic education.
Different types
There are two kinds of undergraduate courses: the first is the undergraduate course of general higher education (also known as the undergraduate course of unified recruitment), and the second is the undergraduate course of adult higher education.
The examination methods are different.
There are four ways to upgrade adult higher education: including self-taught examination, adult college entrance examination (divided into amateur and correspondence learning methods), online education (distance education) and open university (formerly Radio and TV University).
Different forms of learning
The unified examination is a full-time undergraduate course, and the joint examination forms are amateur, correspondence and part-time (full-time).