The American education system as a whole can be divided into four stages, namely:

preschool education

Primary education (primary education)

Secondary education (secondary education)

Higher education.

Preschool education, primary education and secondary education all belong to pre-university education, including nurseries and kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools.

According to American law, all school-age children should go to school and provide compulsory (free) primary and secondary education. Of course, if they go to private schools, they have to pay very expensive tuition fees. Some public middle schools also admit foreign students and issue them visas, but these foreign students need to pay tuition fees, which is basically the same as other students entering private middle schools. As for the educational system of primary schools and secondary schools, there are several different forms of cooperation, which are different according to the different conditions of each state, city and township (for example, some are six-year primary schools and six-year secondary schools, some are junior high schools and four-year high schools, and two or three-year credits, etc.). ), but in any case, in principle, children should complete secondary education before 18 years old. Due to the popularization of compulsory education in the United States, about 93% of school-age children receive secondary education, while 70% can complete their studies. Most of them go to universities or colleges for further study and start their higher (junior college) education.

The cultivation of' professional talents' in American higher education is mainly in the education and training of graduate schools and colleges. It is at this level that it attracts more than 1000 million international students to study in the United States every year, including many China students from Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province. In fact, since the beginning of the 20th century, the upsurge of China students studying in the United States has never stopped.