Higher education refers to professional education and vocational education based on the completion of senior secondary education, which is the main educational activity of the country to train senior professionals and professionals. Higher education is one of the important interrelated components in the education system. It usually includes all kinds of educational institutions whose main tasks and activities are high-level learning and training, teaching, research and social services.

Higher education includes full-time higher education and adult higher education. The former is full-time general higher education, while the latter belongs to the category of adult higher education. Higher education level: China's higher education is divided into four levels: junior college students (including higher vocational colleges and junior colleges), undergraduates (including undergraduates), master students and doctoral students, and the corresponding bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are awarded.