According to official website of Xinyang Radio and TV University, Xinyang Radio and TV University is not an undergraduate, but a higher education institution focusing on adult open education, which mainly provides ordinary high school education, secondary vocational education, higher vocational education, undergraduate education and continuing education for all sectors of society.

Radio and TV University is a special institution of higher education. Its target groups are mainly working people and self-taught groups. It adopts an open, flexible and networked learning form to provide students with more flexible learning opportunities and ways.