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What does higher education mean?
Higher education is a professional education and vocational education based on the completion of secondary education, and it is the main social activity to train senior professionals and professionals. Higher education is one of the important interrelated components in the education system.

It usually includes all kinds of educational institutions whose main tasks and activities are high-level learning and training, teaching, research and social services. The second half of the 20th century is an unusual stage of expansion and qualitative change in the development history of higher education. The rapid growth of society's demand for senior professionals and the urgent need of individuals for higher education opportunities make higher education develop at an unprecedented speed, from elite education to mass education.

Level of higher education:

It mainly includes four levels: general college (higher vocational college, junior college), undergraduate (including undergraduate), master and doctor.

Education code:

From high to low, the academic level of general higher education is doctor's degree certificate code (0 1), master's degree certificate code (02), second bachelor's degree certificate code (04), undergraduate degree code (05) and specialist degree code (06).

Certificate number:

The form of study is general full-time (undergraduate education stage), full-time or part-time (postgraduate education stage) diploma, the top five are the name codes of universities, and the sixth (1) represents the academic form of general higher education (unified recruitment).

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Higher Education