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How many years in college?
3 to 5 years, depending on the major, the subjects and time of study are different. Four years of undergraduate course (five years of medical major) and three years of junior college.

Full-time undergraduate (also known as ordinary undergraduate) is usually enrolled by ordinary colleges and universities all over the country through national unified examination, independent enrollment or exemption from examination, with a schooling period of 4-6 years; In addition, recent college graduates can receive undergraduate education through the unified entrance examination for 2 years.

University education should enable students to master the basic theory and professional knowledge necessary for their major, and have the basic skills and preliminary ability to engage in practical work in their major.

The basic study period of junior college education is two to three years, and the study period of part-time higher education should be appropriately extended. Colleges and universities can adjust the length of study according to actual needs.

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Education in People's Republic of China (PRC) is divided into preschool education, primary education, secondary education and higher education, and higher education is divided into junior colleges and undergraduate courses. College education is shorter than undergraduate education, but like undergraduate education and postgraduate education, it is an integral part of China's higher education system and one of the levels of academic education.

There are three situations in which a junior college becomes an undergraduate course:

First, the general full-time undergraduate program is called the unified recruitment undergraduate program (Jiangsu Province is called the specialist transfer program, Guangdong Province is called the specialist transfer program, and Hubei Province is called the specialist joint program), and the 3+2 model is implemented, that is, first study full-time in the general specialist for 3 years, and then study full-time in the general undergraduate for 2 years (clinical medicine for 3 years);

Second, the self-taught undergraduate course;

The third is full-time, correspondence and amateur adult college entrance examination.