Refers to a comprehensive university, which should include multiple disciplines (colleges), and these disciplines must have certain internal relations. A comprehensive university refers to a university that includes many disciplines and interdisciplinary academic knowledge fields, and its definition has similarities and differences around the world. In comprehensive universities, both teaching and scientific research are paid equal attention, and scientific research is ahead of teaching to a certain extent, which provides basic conditions and support for teaching and cultivates college students' awareness and ability of scientific research. The first batch of comprehensive universities in New China are almost all key universities established in the early days, such as Peking University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University and Jilin University. With the merger of departments in China in the 1990s, many new comprehensive universities emerged, most of which played an important role in regional economic and social development.

It means that in a comprehensive university, scientific research focuses on basic science, and the teaching content focuses on general education, with the emphasis on cultivating the basic quality of college students.

From this, we also find that some universities that used to train senior talents in a certain field, such as normal universities, also have the characteristics of some comprehensive universities, such as Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University and Huazhong Normal University. Judging from the history of discipline development, it has gone through the process of combining rough with refined, refined with refined and comprehensive.