Hunan used to be a leader in education, but now it goes hand in hand. Hunan and Shandong basically belong to the same level.

In fact, the difference is that high school education in Hunan is relatively strong, and there are a large number of students with high scores in the college entrance examination every year. Two of Changsha's four famous universities rank in the top of the country 10, but now the higher education in Hunan is far from satisfactory, with 985/2 1 1 adding up to only three. The National Defense Science and Technology University belongs to the Military Commission, not to the unified recruitment, so it is excluded. Instead of 2 1 1 in 985, it is a Hunan Normal University and Xiangtan University, an established key university in the 1980s, which didn't even get a double first-class.

Although there are two 985 universities in Shandong, Shandong University and China Ocean University. However, the overall strength can only rank eighth in the country, and the overall strength should only be the level of Hunan, Sichuan and Liaoning. So overall, education in Hunan is slightly better than that in Shandong.