Higher education in China is mainly divided into two categories:
1. General higher education refers to professional education that mainly recruits high school graduates for full-time study. At present, there are general full-time undergraduate courses (universities, junior colleges and independent colleges) and general full-time specialties (junior college, higher vocational college, junior college, junior college, junior college, junior college and junior college) in China.
2. Adult higher education is an important part of higher education. The types of adult higher education approved by the Ministry of Education are: online distance education, National Open University (formerly Radio and TV University), self-study examination and adult college entrance examination. Therefore, both self-study examination and adult examination belong to adult higher education and are an important part of higher education in China.
The National Education Development Research Center divides universities in China into several types:
(1) research university. It refers to a university that provides a comprehensive bachelor's degree course, puts research first, and is committed to high-level personnel training and scientific research and development (that is, a university with the same number of graduate students as undergraduates or a large proportion of graduate students).
(2) Teaching and research universities. The teaching level of such universities is mainly undergraduate and master students. Some professions with strong industry can recruit some doctoral students, but they cannot train junior college students.
(3) Teaching universities. The main body of such schools is undergraduate teaching, and there are a small number of graduate students or junior college students under special circumstances. Colleges and higher vocational schools. This kind of school embodies the most flexible part of higher education in school and specialty setting, mainly to meet the needs of local economic construction and social development.