The state encourages social forces to establish educational institutions that implement compulsory education as a supplement to the implementation of compulsory education by the state. The state strictly controls social forces to establish institutions of higher learning. The state implements a school-running license system for schools run by social forces.
Education administrative departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the prescribed examination and approval authority, issue school licenses to approved educational institutions.
As of March 4, 20 18, there were 467 private universities (including Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run universities1/institutes). Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools are also run by the people.
At present, the main differences between private universities and public universities (state-owned universities) are:
1, the teachers' equipment is generally inferior to that of public universities.
2. There may be no strict audit and supervision.
3. Academic qualifications are not necessarily recognized. For example, as of 20 12, there were more than 1000 private universities in China, but there were only 403 private universities with academic qualifications recognized by the state, of which 87 were undergraduate degrees and the others were junior college degrees.
4. The tuition fee of equivalent education is much higher than that of public universities.
Because of the above reasons, since 1990s, public and private secondary colleges have been popularized in coastal areas, taking public universities as the guidance, introducing private capital, and combining the official background of the former with the free operation of the latter. After 2003, public and private secondary colleges began to be restructured into independent colleges.
Extended data:
form
At present, private universities in China have the following forms:
1. Private institutions of higher education: approved by the Ministry of Education, these institutions are qualified to directly issue junior college and undergraduate diplomas. Recruit some professional students in the plan, and be admitted by the admissions department of the province and city where the school is located.
Students participating in the unified recruitment must meet the prescribed admission scores, enjoy equal recognition of academic qualifications, and enjoy the same treatment as public ordinary and adult colleges. When students graduate, their school will issue a diploma (the same as the public diploma), and the state will recognize their academic qualifications.
2. Higher education diploma examination institutions: Students in such schools are enrolled by the school independently for the society. When students graduate, the State Education Commission, the provincial and municipal higher education self-study examination committees and diploma examination schools jointly examine and seal them, and issue diplomas. The academic qualifications are recognized by the state.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-private colleges and universities