198 1 was established with the approval of the State Council. This is the national examination for self-study examination of higher education. It is a form of adult higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and it is an important part of China's socialist higher education system. Its task is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through national examinations, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, and conduct national examinations for adult higher education, mainly academic examinations. Cultivate and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, improve the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation, and meet the needs of socialist modernization.

Self-study examination is one of the basic systems of adult higher education in China, an important part of adult higher education at present, and a national examination system for adult higher education with academic qualifications as the main body. It is a form of higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination. After systematic study, graduates who meet the requirements through graduation thesis defense and degree English examination can apply for granting adult bachelor's degrees, take postgraduate examinations and continue to study for master's and doctoral degrees, with the same treatment as unified enrollment in the college entrance examination.

TV University:

Central Radio and TV University and local radio and TV universities at all levels, referred to as "TV University". It is a university that uses modern media technologies such as radio, television and computer network to implement higher education. Mainly with other key universities (such as Nankai University, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China University of Political Science and Law, etc.). ). After graduation, the Central Radio and TV University will issue a diploma. After passing the degree requirements of the jointly run university, the cooperative university will issue a diploma.

The two are different:

Self-taught exams are more easily accepted by enterprises, and some enterprises may reject RTVU students. In fact, RTVU is just correspondence, but now civil servants can also take part, and the examination standards have been relaxed.