Second, explain the first situation, the scale of our domestic universities is getting bigger and bigger, and the division of administrative levels is becoming more and more detailed and professional. In the last century, our universities were generally under the jurisdiction of departments, that is, the XX Department of XX University. Later, with the development of the times, the two-tier structure of universities/departments can no longer meet the needs of universities, so colleges appeared, and colleges became another administrative institution sandwiched between universities and departments. This is the common three-tier structure in universities/colleges/departments. At the beginning of this century, universities joined hands with Lian Heng to expand the scale of many universities again.
Third, explain the second situation. In order to meet the increasing shortage of educational resources, the state allows private capital to enter the higher education market, which gives birth to a special kind of college called independent college. It is called an institution because it is an independent educational entity and a profit-making entity, which is dominated by private capital and the school board, and combines the above characteristics with the educational resources and names of public universities. The certificate he issued was not issued by a public university, but signed by the college itself, and the tuition fee is usually much more expensive than that of a public university.
Fourth, there is a relatively simple way to distinguish the above two. Usually, in the first case, the name of XX College after XX University will have a certain academic tendency, such as School of Journalism of Fudan University and College of Ocean Affairs of Zhejiang University. In the latter case, the names in front of this college usually don't have too many academic or professional tendencies, such as Tan Kah Kee College of Xiamen University, zhejiang university city college and so on. In addition, after the college entrance examination, XX College of XX University, which usually appears alone in the reference books, is the most likely independent college.
At present, the Ministry of Education is gradually standardizing the naming of independent colleges. In the next step, many independent colleges will remove the names of the public universities with the most contracts and name them independently.