Provincial colleges and universities refer to ordinary colleges and universities belonging to all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and their funds are allocated by local administrative departments.

Provincial colleges and universities refer to ordinary colleges and universities affiliated to provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, and funded by local administrative departments. Provincial colleges and universities account for the vast majority of the total number of colleges and universities in China, and are the main bodies of colleges and universities in China, undertaking the task of cultivating talents for the region and serving local economic and social development.

Universities generally refer to schools that implement higher education, and refer to higher education institutions that provide teaching and research conditions and authorize the conferment of degrees, including comprehensive university colleges, higher vocational colleges and other schools.

The teaching levels of universities are usually divided into two types, namely, graduate students and undergraduate colleges, in which graduate students include master students and doctoral students, and undergraduate colleges are divided into undergraduate and junior colleges.

Teaching methods are mainly divided into full-time and part-time. By February1May, 2065438, there were 2845 institutions of higher learning in China and Chinese mainland, including 2553 ordinary institutions of higher learning (including 447 private colleges, 275 independent colleges and 7 Chinese-foreign cooperative schools) and 292 adult institutions of higher learning.