The research object of higher education refers to the phenomenon of higher education. Higher education is a new discipline developed in China in 1980s. It is a science that studies higher education activities and their development laws, an interdisciplinary educational science and a special social science. Any discipline is established because it has specific research objects different from other disciplines. The scientific definition of the research object is not only the starting point and origin of subject research, but also the scientific direction of subject research, and it is also one of the yardsticks to measure whether a subject really reaches the scientific level. Extended information The following are different expressions about the research object of higher education in domestic works:

"A new discipline of higher education, which takes higher education as the research object, reveals the special laws of higher vocational education, and explores the theories and methods of cultivating specialized talents";

"Higher education is a branch of educational science. Based on the general education theory, it studies the unique contradictions of higher education and reveals the objective laws of the development of higher education. Its specific research objects include:

1. Higher education should study the dialectical relationship between higher education and social development in China;

2. Higher education should study the nature, tasks, processes, principles, methods and forms of all work in colleges and universities, summarize and study the practical experience in these work, and put forward the objective laws of all work;

3. Higher education should also study the basic theoretical problems of school leadership management, study and reveal the characteristics of university work and the laws of building high-quality teachers, as well as the characteristics of college students' physical and mental development and the laws of educational work based on these characteristics. "

The research object of higher education is the law of the emergence and development of higher education and its application in educational practice and management practice.

"Higher education is a science that studies the laws of higher education and the cultivation of senior professionals."

"The research object of higher education is neither ordinary higher education nor the application of the law of higher education, but the special contradiction and development law of higher education."

"Higher education studies take a common problem in higher education as the research object. It separates various specific forms, special forms, specific conditions and designated fields of higher education. It does not aim at putting forward countermeasures and some operable schemes to solve problems, but abstracts problems into a universal and general problem. The purpose is to reveal the laws of higher education and provide theoretical basis for guiding higher education practice and formulating countermeasures and schemes to solve problems. "