First of all, they have different functions:

1. The role of universities: universities not only train talents for higher education, but also engage in relevant scientific experiments. Regular full-time national universities have both junior college students and undergraduates.

2. The role of the profession: the professional profession trains specialized personnel who specialize in research.

Second, their educational levels are different:

1. Education level of universities: universities belong to higher education institutions.

2. Specialized education level: Specialized education belongs to higher vocational education.

Third, the certificates issued by the two are different:

1. Certificate issued by the university: After finishing the university, you can study for a master's degree or a doctor's degree at different levels, or you can study for a master's degree or a doctor's degree (double doctor's certificate will be issued after graduation).

2. Certificate issued by junior college: Junior college students will get a junior college diploma when they graduate.

Meaning of university: University refers to an ordinary institution of higher learning, an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions. It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and external environmental influence.

The meaning of specialist: besides the specialist education in normal universities, medicine and public security, the specialist usually refers to the specialist education in higher vocational education, that is, on the basis of completing secondary education, to cultivate and master the necessary basic theories and professional knowledge of this major, and to have the basic professional skills and preliminary ability to engage in practical work of this major.

In China, professional education is undertaken by higher vocational colleges, and some ordinary undergraduate colleges also offer professional courses. What is awarded is a diploma of a general college or an adult college, not a degree certificate at the college level.

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