Higher education includes general college education, undergraduate education, second bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree. Among them, ordinary colleges and universities also include higher vocational and junior college education, undergraduate education, and master students include academic masters and professional masters.

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.

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The types of higher education schools mainly include:

1, higher vocational education. That is, higher vocational study and junior college study are the most flexible in specialty setting, which can promote local economic development and social progress.

2. Teaching university. This kind of higher education school is mainly responsible for undergraduate teaching, and the number of graduate students and junior college students is very small.

3. Teaching and research universities This kind of higher education schools are mainly divided into undergraduate and master students. Among them, industrial majors will recruit some doctoral students, but they will not recruit junior college students.

4. Research universities. The number of undergraduates trained by such higher education schools is equivalent to that of graduate students, or the number of undergraduates is less than that of graduate students. Pay attention to research, the cultivation of senior talents and the research and development of advanced technologies.