Ordinary higher vocational colleges, namely ordinary higher vocational schools. It is higher education, vocational and technical education and a higher stage of vocational and technical education. Higher vocational colleges include two levels of academic education: junior college and undergraduate. The graduation certificate issued by higher vocational colleges to qualified graduates is recognized by the state and enjoys all the treatment of ordinary college graduates. According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, from the end of last century, full-time colleges and universities with non-normal, non-medical and non-public security majors should gradually standardize their school name suffixes as "vocational and technical college" or "vocational college", and full-time colleges and universities with normal, medical and public security majors should standardize their school name suffixes as "college". "Vocational and Technical College" or "Vocational College" is a unique suffix of higher vocational colleges and an important part of higher education in China.

In response to China's Ministry of Education's plan to build a modern vocational education system, some national demonstration higher vocational colleges began to pilot undergraduate majors from 20 12. Higher vocational education includes two levels of education: undergraduate and junior college. However, in many other countries and regions, the higher vocational education system completely covers the academic education at junior college and undergraduate level.

Ordinary higher vocational colleges are different from ordinary colleges.

Compared with ordinary higher education that trains academic talents, higher vocational education focuses on training advanced technical applied talents. Higher vocational education in Chinese mainland is mainly at the junior college level. With the approval of the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), some national model higher vocational colleges have started to hold four-year undergraduate education in autumn 2008. When higher vocational students graduate, they get college or undergraduate diplomas recognized by the state and enjoy all the treatment of ordinary college graduates.