Generally speaking, 5000- 10000 people belong to small universities, 1-30000 people belong to medium-sized universities, and more than 30000 people are considered as large universities, such as Sun Yat-sen University, Jinan University, South China University of Technology, South China Agricultural University and Guangdong University of Technology in Guangdong Province.

In the list of Big Mac universities, the number of the top 90 universities all exceeds 32,000. There are 17 universities with more than 50,000 students. Among these 17 universities, 9 are 985 universities, 6 are 2 1 1 universities, and 2 are non-2 1 1 universities.

The strength of these schools is uneven, some are caused by the large number of undergraduate master students, such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University, and some are caused by too many undergraduate students, such as Zhengzhou University and Henan University.

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Modern universities directly originated from European medieval universities in 12 and 13 centuries. Ancient Egypt, India and China are the cradles of higher education, and ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Arab countries have established relatively perfect and developed higher education systems. Although many educational historians call these local institutions of higher learning universities, strictly speaking, they are not real universities.

1088, Italy established the first regular university-Bologna University, which is the most famous research center of Roman law in Europe (also known as "parent university", student university). Subsequently, universities appeared all over Europe.

The University of Paris evolved from the school affiliated to Notre Dame de Paris. 1200, the king of France recognized that scholars of Paris University have legal clergy qualifications and judicial immunity (Paris University is the second university and a gentleman's university).