Official website, China Geo University, said that the scholarship for ethnic minorities is specially set up for students in ethnic minority areas, aiming at promoting the development of education in ethnic minority areas and encouraging and subsidizing students with excellent academic performance but financial difficulties to complete their studies. Social scholarships are established by social organizations, enterprises or individuals to reward students who have made outstanding achievements in academic research and social practice. This kind of scholarship is usually selected according to students' comprehensive quality, specialty or social practical experience, and its coverage is relatively wide.

Therefore, the establishment purpose, selection scope and selection criteria of minority scholarships and social scholarships are different.