Individual enrollment in higher vocational colleges (referred to as single enrollment in higher vocational colleges) means that higher vocational colleges set up examination subjects according to their own professional teaching needs, and make independent propositions, examinations, marking papers, interviews and admissions. Higher vocational single recruit means that high school students don't have to take the college entrance examination after being admitted to higher vocational colleges through separate enrollment.

Independent enrollment in higher vocational colleges is an important policy to comprehensively promote quality education, highlight the characteristics of higher vocational education, actively promote the reform of college entrance examination enrollment system, and select outstanding high school graduates with high comprehensive quality, innovative ability, practical ability and special talents to study in higher vocational colleges, that is, higher vocational colleges set examination subjects according to their own professional teaching needs, and independently propose, test, mark papers, interview and enroll.

Different from the general college entrance examination, higher vocational single strokes are divided into 13 categories instead of arts and sciences, namely:

Business management, 2. Finance and economics, 3. Politics and law, 4. Normal education, 5. Secretary, 6. Arts and crafts, 7. Tourism, 8. Machinery, 9. Computer, 10. Electronic and electrical, 1 1. Architecture. Candidates choose one as their major when registering, and take the exam after learning the basic knowledge of the major.

Higher vocational single-recruit examination items include: language, mathematics, English and professional basic knowledge. The total score is 750, which is the same as the general college entrance examination. Although the contents of English, mathematics and English exams are high school knowledge, they are much simpler than the general college entrance examination. There is also the fact that higher vocational students can only apply for higher vocational education in their own province because the examination papers are different in different provinces, but not in other provinces.

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College refers to the ordinary institutions of higher learning and vocational colleges established with the approval of the Ministry of Education to implement special education.

According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, full-time ordinary colleges and universities at the level of normal, medical and public security specialties should be standardized with the suffix of "specialty", while full-time ordinary colleges and universities at the level of non-normal, non-medical and non-public security specialties should gradually be standardized with the suffix of "vocational and technical college" or "vocational college".

By June 2023 15, there were 3,072 colleges and universities in China, including 2,820 colleges and universities, including undergraduate 1275 and higher vocational 1545.