In the Ming Dynasty, imperial academy was an official school run by the central government, which was mainly responsible for training officials, but it also accepted private students and became an important institution for training senior talents. There are different levels of Jinshi, Juren, Jishi Shu and fellow Jinshi in imperial academy, covering different disciplines such as literature, history, mathematics and arithmetic. Early modern British universities were composed of churches, colleges and trade unions. These schools are not run by the central government, but focus on cultivating talents with professional skills and academic ability. At the same time, the teaching methods of British universities advocate standardization and scholarship, and have a relatively complete discipline system and scientific research system. There are great differences between them in disciplines and school-running methods.
Imperial academy in Ming Dynasty and British universities in early modern times were both important institutions of higher education in the society at that time, but due to the differences in time, geographical location and cultural background, they formed completely different school-running systems and disciplines.