In fact, there are many differences between universities and colleges, but these differences are generally not easy to see, and we need to consult data and compare them to better distinguish them. China's education department has strict hard conditions for colleges to be promoted to universities, and the standards for the establishment of colleges are also different.

As long as the college has more than 5,000 students, the university needs to reach 8,000 students, of whom at least 5% are graduate students. Universities require more than 20 undergraduate majors, so universities must be undergraduate schools. In addition, colleges and universities have very specific requirements for the proportion of teachers' academic qualifications, the number of full-time and part-time teachers, the level of scientific research, scientific research achievements and papers, the school's floor space, and book reserves. From these aspects, we can distinguish between universities and colleges, which also shows that universities are more demanding than colleges.

In addition, if you want to apply for changing a college into a university, you have to meet several criteria. For example, you need to have a master's program of 10 or above to train 5 master's students; There need to be more than two provincial and ministerial key disciplines and laboratories. Then, in the past five years, the research funding has reached millions or even tens of millions, and 20 provincial and ministerial awards have been won, at least two of which belong to the national level. Having said that, perhaps the most useful thing is that universities are more difficult to apply than colleges, so universities are better.