The academic qualifications of private colleges are divided into different types, which usually refer to the academic certificates obtained when private colleges recruit undergraduate and junior college students full-time. Without the approval of the Ministry of Education, the state does not recognize their academic qualifications.

According to the newly promulgated Law on the Promotion of Private Education, as long as it is a private university approved by the state, its education has the same effect as that of a public university (its students have the opportunity to obtain scholarships, grants, poverty subsidies and postgraduate and doctoral examinations granted by the state during their school days, and social employment units shall not treat them differently when they work after graduation).

In order to expand the resources of higher education, the state encourages public undergraduate colleges to use social funds to set up independent colleges (private colleges). As a non-state financial institution of higher learning, it has played a very important role in improving the gross enrollment rate of higher education in China, is an important measure to ensure the sustained and healthy development of higher education in China in the future, is an important part of the development of higher education in China, and will also become a bright spot in the future.