Self-taught examination for higher education, referred to as self-taught examination for short, was established with the approval of 198 1 the State Council. It is a national examination of higher education for self-learners, a form of higher education combining individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and an important part of China's socialist higher education system. It is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through national examinations, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, train and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, and improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation to meet the needs of socialist modernization.
After systematic study, those who have achieved the required results through graduation thesis defense and degree English examination and meet the requirements for degree application may apply for granting adult bachelor's degree and continue to study for master's degree and doctoral degree.