Provincial universities, also known as local universities, are managed by the administrative departments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and special zones.
Their specific differences are:
1, fund source difference
Universities under the Ministry are managed by the central ministries and commissions, supported by the central government, and provincial universities are managed by the provincial people's government, with local provincial financial supply.
2. The strength and popularity of institutions are different.
Colleges and universities directly under the central government have strong educational strength and high international reputation. Universities directly under the Ministry of Education are all key universities, and provincial universities are all ordinary undergraduate colleges except a few 2 1 1 universities.
Most of the 3.985 famous schools were established by the Deputy Ministry.
Most of the 985 universities are subordinate universities with vice-ministerial presidents, while the presidents of ordinary universities are all at the official level, half a level lower than the former.
4, the number is different
Universities directly under the central government 1 15, while there are nearly 3,000 universities in China, and the rest are provincial universities.
Examples of subordinate universities are Peking University, China Renmin University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University, Nanjing University, Southeast University, China University of Mining and Technology, Hohai University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Geo University (Wuhan), Shandong University, China Ocean University, China Youshi University (East China) and so on.