After the end of the college entrance examination every year, some candidates will be admitted to undergraduate universities, and some students will be admitted to junior colleges. Hehe, I don't agree with this point of view. Undergraduate and junior college both belong to the stage of higher education, can be called a university, college graduates are also college students, don't take bean bags as dry food!
When applying for the junior college volunteer, many netizens must have found an interesting phenomenon, which is also a junior college, and some junior colleges are called "junior colleges", such as Shandong Medical College, Jinan Preschool Normal College, and Shandong Electric Power College; Some specialties are called "vocational colleges", such as Shandong Garment Vocational College, Shandong Water Conservancy Vocational College, Shandong Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Vocational College, and Shandong Transportation Vocational College.
The question is, why are some junior colleges called "junior colleges" and some junior colleges called "vocational colleges"? Don't rush to get an answer, and let me take my time.
In the past few days, the public opinion information about the 190,000 liberal arts candidates in Shandong Province has swiped the screen. 190,000, this number is not a small number, an anchor in Shanxi Province said that the total number of liberal arts candidates in the entire Shanxi Province is not 190,000!
It is reported that the undergraduate enrollment plan in 2024 is about 250,000 people, and it is necessary to add 20% more candidates on this basis, that is to say, if there are 50,000 candidates in 2024, it is the normal number of slides. However, 190,000 liberal arts students have slipped gears, which is not normal.
Of course, the "culprit" is that after the physical and chemical binding, candidates who choose physics and chemistry at the same time will all become liberal arts students. Now these 190,000 liberal arts students, plus some science students who failed the list, are competing for a limited number of junior college programs. I never dreamed that for liberal arts students, being able to be admitted to a junior college would become a great winner!
In the past, everyone didn't care about junior colleges, so to speak, many people didn't pay attention to junior colleges at all, and only those desperate and exhausted candidates would go to junior colleges. This year, it's different, the junior college has changed and its value has doubled!
Maybe among netizens over 50 years old, when it comes to junior colleges, they will immediately think of some junior colleges at that time, which were called junior colleges, such as a certain normal college, a certain medical college, a certain electric power college, a certain financial college, a certain commercial college, a certain food industry college, a certain foreign language college, etc., in those years when the undergraduate admission rate was very low, it was also "the pride of the sky" to be able to be admitted to the junior college. These vocational schools are open to ordinary high school students, and in short, they are recruited through the summer college entrance examination and selected through a simple cultural course examination.
At that time, in addition to such ordinary high schools, almost every county and district had a kind of school called "technical school" and "vocational secondary school". That is, what is usually called a secondary vocational school, and some junior high school graduates who cannot be admitted to high school have attended such secondary vocational schools. Under normal circumstances, students of secondary vocational schools are not allowed to take the college entrance examination, simply put, graduates of secondary vocational schools either find a job to do, or go home to farm, because secondary vocational schools are not allotted and are not responsible for your employment.
The mainland is a famous manufacturing country in the world, and the manufacturing industry is inseparable from the ordinary workers on the front line of production, and it needs workers who work in a down-to-earth manner, rather than a huge number of scientific and technological researchers and theoretical experts, and a large number of practitioners who put the theory into practice.
Since the end of the 90s of the last century, the state has begun to attach importance to junior college education, and in some provinces and municipalities have tried to recruit graduates of secondary vocational schools. The teaching of secondary vocational schools is different from that of ordinary high schools, which only study cultural courses, which belong to the theoretical level. In addition to learning Chinese, mathematics, English and other cultural courses, secondary vocational schools also need to learn professional skills courses, such as medicine, nursing, automobile maintenance, mechanical and electrical, accounting, computer, civil engineering and other courses, and also participate in skills training. It should be said that the ability of students in secondary vocational schools to apply practice is much stronger than that of ordinary high school students. Therefore, the manufacturing industry is inseparable from these workers with strong hands-on ability.
That is, since then, when the college entrance examination was applied for, there was a "higher vocational college", and this so-called "higher vocational college" included the traditional junior colleges in the past and the new higher vocational colleges for secondary vocational school enrollment. The gold content of the two college diplomas is the same, both are recognized by the state, and the treatment after graduation is the same.
According to my understanding, most of the junior colleges and universities are formed by the merger of the original several secondary vocational schools, after all, the level of higher vocational colleges belongs to the junior college, and it is still difficult for a secondary school to upgrade to a junior college. Of course, there are also some higher vocational colleges that are upgraded from a secondary vocational school.
Secondary vocational schools can be upgraded to junior colleges, and the original junior colleges can also be upgraded to undergraduates, so most of the original junior colleges have been upgraded one after another, some have become "universities", some have become "colleges", and only a few "old junior colleges" have continued to "specialize" due to many reasons.
Of course, according to the Internet, the Ministry of Education stipulates that ordinary colleges and universities at the junior college level that are not normal and non-medical should be suffix "vocational and technical colleges" or "vocational colleges", and ordinary colleges and universities at the junior college level at the normal and medical levels should be standardized with the suffix "higher vocational college". I have not found an official document from the Ministry of Education on this statement, and it is not known whether it is true or not.
Whether it is a junior college or a vocational college, the source of junior college students mainly comes from the following channels: general college entrance examination, spring college entrance examination, and higher vocational single examination, these admitted students belong to ordinary full-time students, and adult college entrance examinations, self-study examination students are part-time.
In short, the current college junior college, known as higher vocational college, includes two parts, one is higher vocational (higher vocational college education) and the other is higher vocational college (higher vocational college).
However, it should be reminded that not all junior colleges are called junior colleges or vocational colleges, and some junior colleges are also called "universities", such as Kaifeng University, Jiaozuo University, Mudanjiang University, Kaifeng University, and some junior colleges are called "colleges", such as Beijing Youth Political College. These universities can be mistaken for undergraduate universities simply by their names. Of course, some netizens said that Wudaokou Vocational College is not an ordinary vocational college! Hehe, this statement is not wrong, because some people on the Internet like to jokingly call Tsinghua University "Wudaokou Vocational College". This career college is truly extraordinary.
Seeing this, the answer to this question seems to gradually become clear:
Colleges in mainland China can be divided into public colleges and private colleges, and there are three types of suffixes in the names of these colleges, namely universities, vocational colleges (including vocational and technical colleges) and colleges and universities.
When applying for the exam, you don't need to consider what the suffix of the school's name is, everyone's "worth" is the same, half a pound and eight taels, you don't need to distinguish between high and low, you only need to apply for your favorite major.