Non-ordinary colleges and universities refer to other colleges and universities with higher education enrollment qualifications besides the list of ordinary colleges and universities announced by the Ministry of Education. Expanding information general higher education;

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.