Two good universities in Hainan are Hainan Tropical Ocean College and Qiongtai Teachers College. Official website of Hainan Tropical Ocean University in June shows that there are118 secondary colleges, 5 1 undergraduate majors and 5 specialist majors, covering 9 disciplines including literature, science, engineering, management, law, history, agriculture, teaching and art.

Hainan Tropical Ocean University is a full-time public undergraduate provincial university jointly established by Hainan Provincial People's Government, State Oceanic Administration, China Offshore Oil Corporation, Sanya City and Sansha City. It is one of the top ten "foreign aid bases for education" of the Ministry of Education, a pilot unit for training graduate students majoring in tourism management in the "Training Program for Talents with Special Needs in the Country" of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, and a Chinese member institution of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University (cooperation direction: regionalism and ecology).