General higher education refers to professional education that mainly recruits high school graduates for full-time study. General education is a concept corresponding to adult education. The object of general education is mainly teenagers in the growing stage, and it takes the form of full-time teaching.
General higher education belongs to the unified recruitment, including general full-time junior college, general full-time undergraduate (four-year, five-year and two-year undergraduate students admitted through the unified recruitment examination), general full-time second bachelor's degree, general full-time unified recruitment master's degree (academic master and professional master), part-time unified recruitment master's degree (academic master and professional master) and general full-time doctoral student.
By the end of 20 15, there were 2,560 colleges and universities (including 275 independent colleges), including 12 19 undergraduate colleges and 134 1 vocational colleges, with a total of 7,378,500 students. The average scale of colleges and universities is 10 197, with a total of 2,369,300 faculty members.