The college entrance examination is under the unified leadership of the Ministry of Education, and the provincial admissions committees implement territorial management and are responsible for organizing the implementation. Because there are many colleges and universities participating in admission, different types of colleges and universities can only be arranged in stages and batches, thus forming admission batches.

Second, the traditional batch classification

Undergraduate approval in advance: institutions with special requirements. Generally, it refers to military colleges, armed police colleges, public security colleges (including public security majors in political and legal colleges), physical education colleges (including physical education majors in comprehensive universities), art colleges or majors, and some colleges and universities such as China Youth University for Politics, Institute of International Relations, Beijing Institute of Electronic Technology and Foreign Affairs College. Small language majors in some colleges and universities are also approved in advance.

The first batch of undergraduate courses: universities directly under the Ministry of Education, "2 1 1 Project" universities, key universities affiliated to the original ministries and commissions jointly established by the Ministry and the province, and universities (majors) approved to participate in this batch of admission.

The second batch of undergraduate courses: generally, they are provincial non-key undergraduate colleges.

The third batch of undergraduate courses: independent colleges and private undergraduate colleges approved by the Ministry of Education.

Professional approval in advance: generally, it is a major with special requirements (higher vocational education).

General approval of specialties: higher vocational colleges, junior colleges and undergraduate colleges. (Some provinces are also divided into the first batch of majors and the second batch of majors)

Third, the status quo of batch development

Due to the development of network information technology, the problem of more enrollment in schools has been solved. However, due to the problems of enrollment batch setting and some students' voluntary slipping, the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Examination Enrollment System" issued by China on 20 14 clearly proposed to start the comprehensive reform pilot of college entrance examination, reform the examination subject setting and reform the examinee admission mechanism. At present, some provinces have carried out batch reforms.