Vocational and technical college is a first-class college in Chinese universities, which belongs to the category of higher vocational colleges and ordinary colleges and universities, equivalent to ordinary colleges and universities, and gradually begins to replace ordinary colleges and universities. With higher vocational education as the main content, in the order of university admission, it is the first batch of junior college students and the second batch of junior college students, and it is also the admission institution of "three schools" (vocational high schools, secondary specialized schools and technical schools). At the same time, the teaching work of some undergraduate colleges is also arranged in the vocational and technical college of a university. Vocational and technical college is a local institution of higher learning, which exists as a preparation for local colleges and universities in places not covered by local colleges and universities, and can also be used as a supplement to local colleges and universities. Vocational and technical college is a public institution of ordinary colleges and universities, belonging to the category of universities, not adult colleges, nor technical schools.

Ordinary institutions of higher learning refer to institutions of higher learning that are approved or put on record by the national education administrative department and mainly implement ordinary higher education, which are divided into undergraduate level and junior college level. Ordinary institutions of higher learning at the undergraduate level are named XX University or XX College, such as Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Shandong Institute of Economics, Shandong Jiaotong University, Ankang College, Weifang College, Yantai Nanshan College, Beijing Health Vocational College, Beijing Vocational College of Information Technology, Capital Railway Health School, Beijing Vocational College of Industry, Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture, Beijing Vocational College of Electronic Technology, etc. The names of colleges at the junior college level are XX College, XX College, XX Vocational and Technical College or XX Vocational College, such as Tianjin Biotechnology Vocational and Technical College, Shandong Medical College, Heze Medical College, Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zibo Teachers College, Jinan Railway Vocational and Technical College, Shandong Vocational College of Science and Technology and Ankang Vocational and Technical College.