Universities are ordinary institutions of higher learning, and ordinary higher education refers to academic education that mainly recruits high school graduates for "full-time" study. Pass the national unified examination for enrollment in ordinary colleges and universities. Adult higher education is to recruit "on-the-job" employees for work and study through correspondence, evening university and staff college. And pass the adult college entrance examination.

Ordinary universities include adult universities. Adult education includes higher education self-study examination, adult college entrance examination, online education and open education.

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.

The enrollment methods of ordinary colleges and universities mainly include: the entrance examination for doctoral and master students organized by ordinary colleges and universities, the national unified entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities organized by the Ministry of Education and provincial education administrative departments, the spring entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities in some provinces and cities, the counterpart single-recruit examination and the entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities.

Educational institutions that implement general higher education include universities and colleges, vocational and technical colleges/vocational colleges, junior colleges, independent colleges, etc. Universities, independent colleges and junior colleges mainly implement undergraduate education; Vocational and technical colleges/vocational colleges and junior colleges mainly implement junior college (higher vocational) level education.

In 20 16, there were 2,880 ordinary and adult colleges and universities nationwide. Among them, there are 2,596 ordinary colleges (including 266 independent colleges), an increase of 36 over the previous year. There are 1237 undergraduate colleges and universities, an increase of 18 over the previous year; There are 1359 higher vocational colleges, an increase of 18 over the previous year.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-ordinary colleges and universities