Foreign branch
American colleges and universities are divided into six categories:
Institutions of higher learning that award doctorates (I-type widely award doctorates/research universities; Second-class centralized doctoral/research universities);
A university that confers a master's degree (a type of university that confers a master's degree; A second-class university that awards a master's degree);
Bachelor's College (College of Arts and Sciences; General bachelor's college; Bachelor's degree/college;
Associate degree college;
Professional higher education institutions (awarding degrees from bachelor to doctor, but at least 80% of the degrees are concentrated in a single field);
Tribal College (member institution of American Indian Higher Education Association) 。
Japanese institutions of higher learning are divided into universities (providing undergraduate and postgraduate education), short-term universities (providing two-year education or training) and specialized institutions of higher learning (providing five-year education or training for junior high school graduates aged 65,438+05). Among them, universities are divided into five levels: research universities, doctoral degrees are awarded to university I, doctoral degrees are awarded to university II, and master's degrees are awarded to universities and undergraduate colleges.
French institutions of higher learning can be divided into five categories: short-term higher technical colleges, junior colleges, general comprehensive universities, key higher professional universities and higher teaching and research institutions.
Universities in Britain are mainly divided into the following types: classical universities, modern universities, city universities, new universities, former multidisciplinary technical colleges and universities and higher education colleges upgraded from them.
In order to facilitate the exchange of higher education between different countries, the international standard classification of education approved by UNESCO (revised edition 1997) divides tertiary education (higher education) into two stages: the first stage (ordinal number 5) is equivalent to tertiary education, undergraduate education and master education, and it is divided into two categories: 5A is theoretical, with a long learning period of more than 4 years. Category 5B is practical and technical, and the learning period is short, generally 2-3 years. Its purpose is to enable students to acquire practical skills and knowledge needed to engage in a certain occupation or industry. As for the second stage (ordinal number 6), it refers to obtaining an advanced research diploma (doctor's degree) and conducting advanced research and innovative research.