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What kind of schools do colleges and universities refer to?
Colleges and universities are generally schools that provide higher education to citizens, which is similar to the meaning of universities. University refers to a comprehensive higher education institution that provides teaching and research conditions and authorizes the conferment of degrees. Nowadays, universities generally include a graduate school that can award master's and doctoral degrees, several professional colleges, and an undergraduate school that can award bachelor's degrees.

Institutions also include colleges and universities. In terms of school affiliation, institutions of higher learning include universities affiliated to the central government and universities affiliated to local governments. From the perspective of school types, colleges and universities include ordinary colleges and universities, adult colleges and universities and private colleges and universities. The state has launched 2 1 1 Project and 985 Project to build high-level institutions of higher learning.

regular higher education

The task of general education is usually undertaken by schools that implement general education. General education schools are divided into general basic education schools, vocational education schools and ordinary institutions of higher learning, all of which implement full-time teaching. General basic education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education, including special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and work-study education for supernormal students.

Vocational education includes general secondary professional education, vocational high school education, mechanic education and higher vocational education. General higher education refers to the academic education that mainly recruits high school graduates to study full-time, which is opposite to the adult higher education forms such as correspondence, evening university and staff university that recruit on-the-job employees to study while working.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Universities.