The definition of college students is that college students are ordinary full-time students. Specifically, it includes junior college students, undergraduates and graduate students (masters). That is, the groups registered in universities and receiving education are collectively referred to, including full-time and on-the-job part-time studies, usually students, excluding self-taught candidates. Graduates from various institutions of higher learning are generally called university degrees.

College students are a special group in society, who are receiving basic higher education but have not yet graduated into society. As the frontier group of new technology and new ideas, college students are senior professionals trained by the state. College students represent young people and energetic people, and are the pillars to promote social progress.

There are usually many ways to get into a university. Among them, ordinary high school graduates mainly take the national unified entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities, and there are also many ways to enter universities, such as walking in high schools, independent enrollment in universities, single examination and single recruitment.