Colleges and universities are collectively referred to as undergraduate colleges, junior colleges and junior colleges, or universities for short. Colleges and universities are mainly divided into ordinary colleges, vocational colleges and adult colleges.

Chinese mainland's higher education system has two first-class, Ministry-provincial cooperation and basic capacity-building projects in central and western universities, namely, 20 1 1 plan,1plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, excellent legal talents education and training plan, excellent doctor education and training plan, excellent agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan and excellent teachers training plan.