In the early years of the Republic of China, China society experienced a transition from traditional closure to compulsory opening, and the development of higher education was also branded with the times. Abandonment and integration of traditional education, denial and development, acceptance and rejection of western education, transplantation and resistance, conception and operation, experiment and adjustment in the Republic of China, etc. , interwoven into a complex education reform system. The emergence of new schools in the late Qing Dynasty was an attempt at the budding development of higher education, and the abolition of the imperial examination system cleared the institutional obstacles for the development of colleges and universities. Abolishing the imperial examination and promoting learning not only realized the modernization of higher education in China, but also laid the foundation for the future development of higher education. The development of higher education in China began in this period.

From the closed door of feudal society to the practicality and popularization of modern society, it has embarked on the road of conforming to the development trend of international higher education.