Ordinary institutions of higher learning include ordinary undergraduate institutions of higher learning, ordinary higher vocational schools and ordinary colleges.

The enrollment methods of ordinary colleges and universities mainly include the national unified enrollment examination for doctoral and master students, the national unified enrollment examination for ordinary colleges and universities organized by the Ministry of Education and the provincial education administrative departments, the spring entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities in some provinces and cities, the separate enrollment examination for counterpart higher vocational colleges, the comprehensive evaluation of enrollment for ordinary higher vocational colleges, and the examination for upgrading to undergraduate colleges and universities.

Educational institutions that implement general higher education in institutions of higher learning include ordinary institutions of higher learning, vocational and technical universities/vocational universities, vocational and technical colleges/vocational colleges, junior colleges and independent colleges. Universities, independent colleges and junior colleges mainly implement undergraduate and postgraduate education, while vocational and technical universities/vocational universities mainly implement undergraduate vocational education; Vocational and technical colleges/vocational colleges and junior colleges mainly implement specialized education. By June 30, 2020, there were 2740 colleges and universities in China, including 1272 undergraduate colleges and 1468 higher vocational colleges.

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General education is divided into basic education, secondary vocational education and general higher education.

General basic education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education, including special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and work-study education for extraordinary students; Vocational education includes secondary professional education, vocational school education, mechanic education and higher vocational education (higher vocational education in colleges and universities also belongs to general higher education); General higher education can be divided into postgraduate education, undergraduate education and specialist education.

General higher education is relative to adult institutions of higher learning, staff universities, TV universities, night schools and other forms. In this junior college education stage, it refers to the academic education of "full-time" study of ordinary high school graduates and candidates with equivalent academic qualifications who have passed the national unified entrance examination for ordinary colleges and universities, and the academic education of full-time and part-time graduate students who have passed the national unified entrance examination for postgraduate education.

Generally speaking, military schools belong to ordinary higher education; Postgraduate education in scientific research institutes also belongs to general higher education.