All college students, undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students are collectively called college students. A series of policies open to college students at the national level, such as national scholarships, tuition loans, entrepreneurship subsidies and other preferential policies, are enjoyed by college students. Therefore, "junior college students" certainly belong to college students.

The academic system of most undergraduates is four years. On the basis of basic theory, they are more inclined to do academic research, while the academic system of junior college is three to five years (here refers to the five-year junior college at the starting point of junior high school), which is inclined to the cultivation of vocational and technical direction. Moreover, junior college students can also upgrade their academic qualifications through "upgrading" and enter undergraduate colleges for further study.