The general junior college is a three-year program, and the undergraduate course is a four-year program. In addition, medical undergraduates also have a five-year program. Universities are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, specialized universities and colleges. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.

University is essentially a special academic institution about knowledge, and its basic mission is to manage knowledge, disseminate knowledge, use knowledge and create knowledge. Universities are managers of knowledge. Management knowledge is to collect human knowledge as widely as possible, formulate a knowledge classification system to sort out knowledge scientifically, keep knowledge properly, and provide it to learners as conveniently as possible. Universities are disseminators of knowledge. In the past, the spread of human knowledge was mainly vertical and handed down from generation to generation. With the rapid increase of the radius of human activities and the arrival of the era of globalization, the horizontal spread of knowledge has also developed rapidly. Universities are users of knowledge. Through the application of knowledge, universities transform science into technology and science and technology into social products, directly serving the society and directly promoting social progress.

Universities are managers of knowledge. Management knowledge is to collect human knowledge as widely as possible, formulate a knowledge classification system to sort out knowledge scientifically, keep knowledge properly, and provide it to learners as conveniently as possible.

Universities are disseminators of knowledge. In the past, the spread of human knowledge was mainly vertical and handed down from generation to generation. With the rapid increase of the radius of human activities and the arrival of the era of globalization, the horizontal spread of knowledge has also developed rapidly.

Universities are users of knowledge. Through the application of knowledge, universities transform science into technology and science and technology into social products, directly serving the society and directly promoting social progress.

University is the creator of knowledge. Each generation should not only enjoy the knowledge of predecessors, but also become the creators of new knowledge and add some "new weapons" to the "arsenal" of human knowledge. This is the basis for universities to attach importance to scientific research.

University majors need to study for 5 years.

Major in clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, architecture, urban planning and musicology, five years.

Dalian Jiaotong University also offers five-year programs such as industrial engineering, traffic engineering, welding technology and engineering.

Some adult institutions of higher learning, such as radio and TV universities, recruit graduates with high school education, usually for 4-5 years.

Although some majors have four-year courses, some institutions will require five years of study:

Dalian university of technology-vehicles engineering

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine-Public Administration

Harbin medical university-biotechnology

Nanjing normal university-Japanese

Peking university health science center-English

Suzhou university-French

Dalian jiaotong university-traffic engineering

Dalian jiaotong university-civil engineering

Dalian jiaotong university-economics

Dalian jiaotong university-social work