1. Teaching-oriented University: It is a local provincial full-time university that trains undergraduates as the main body, serves specific areas, and performs major functions such as education, teaching research, knowledge transfer and student development. It is a research university.

2. Research university: a university that provides comprehensive bachelor's degree courses, puts research first, and is committed to high-level personnel training and scientific research and development (that is, a university with the same number of graduate students as undergraduates or a large proportion of graduate students).

Second, they have different characteristics.

1. Teaching university: characterized by openness, application, diversity and locality.

2. Research universities: The common classifications in China are research universities, research and teaching universities, teaching and research universities, teaching universities, applied universities and colleges. Research universities play a key role in China's knowledge innovation system, and the corresponding high-quality students are its important characteristics.

Extended data:

Evaluation criteria of research universities;

In terms of scientific and technological innovation, research universities, as the center of the highest-level talent training and the latest cutting-edge scientific and technological research and development in China, are based on teaching and educating people and scientific and technological research and development, with high talent quality and academic output. Outstanding alumni are two core criteria for judging research universities;

To become a research university, two conditions must be met: one is to cultivate and bring up high-level research talents, the other is to produce high-level academic research results and have excellent teachers, both of which are indispensable.

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