The official website of the Ministry of Education recently announced the results of the approval and filing of a number of institutions of higher learning. The reporter combed and found that increasing the number of colleges and universities at the undergraduate level has become a key word, and vocational schools account for nearly half of the undergraduate colleges and universities set up in this announcement.
Since the beginning of this year, the official website of the Ministry of Education has released the approval and filing information of more than 24 colleges and universities in the "Annual Approval and Filing Results for the Establishment of Colleges and Universities", which involves the upgrading of higher vocational colleges to undergraduates, 0 junior colleges and universities to undergraduates, and at the same time, it has agreed to set up 0 ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities such as Fujian Fuyao University of Science and Technology.
記者梳理髮現，自2019年批准設置首個公辦職業本科院校以來，教育部已批准設置職業本科院校的數量60所。2023年以來，教育部還新設了一批普通本科院校，包括深圳理工大學、康復大學、福建福耀科技大學、湖北三峽航空學院和新疆工業學院、長沙科技學院等。也就是說，增量主要體現在了本科院校數量的變化上。
Experts say this is in line with the changes in our country's school-age population and the needs of economic and social development.
The reporter noticed that among the undergraduate colleges and universities announced this time, vocational schools accounted for nearly half of them. It is understood that promoting the upgrading of national high-quality vocational colleges to undergraduate programs is one of the important ways to adjust the structure of China's higher education levels. Since the "vocational undergraduate" was proposed in 2014 years, the Ministry of Education has issued a number of documents on the positioning of vocational undergraduate types and the setting of standards, so as to improve the level of vocational education and cultivate more high-quality skilled talents needed by the society.
Increase the degree to optimize the major
High-quality colleges and universities strive to "expand"
As some colleges and universities adjust from the junior college level to the undergraduate level, it will inevitably bring about an increase in undergraduate enrollment. Experts said that this is not only the trend of high-quality development of education, but also to meet the requirements of ordinary people to enjoy high-quality educational resources.
據初步統計，此次教育部同意設置的20所高校全部為本科院校，規劃在校生規模總數達21.1萬人。
Not long ago, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Enrollment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in 2025 Years", which also clearly mentioned that the expansion of high-quality undergraduate programs should be conscientiously implemented.
記者梳理髮現，3月份以來，清華大學、上海交通大學、武漢大學等多所“雙一流”大學都宣佈今年本科擴招，預計今年“雙一流”建設高校本科招生規模將擴招2萬人。
Among them, Tsinghua University plans to increase the enrollment quota of about 500 undergraduates in 0 years, focusing on cultivating compound talents with artificial intelligence and multidisciplinary interdisciplinarity; Shanghai Jiaotong University has added 0 new undergraduate enrollment places, focusing on cutting-edge technologies and emerging formats urgently needed by the country; China Agricultural University has expanded its undergraduate enrollment by 0, focusing on talent training in the fields of food security, biological intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence and equipment manufacturing.
Speed up construction in many places
"Local characteristics" universities
黨的二十屆三中全會和《教育強國建設規劃綱要（2024－2035年）》都明確提出，要優化高等教育佈局。各地各校在調整戰略分佈、適應地方發展需求上持續發力，更好服務區域協調發展戰略和區域重大戰略。
Among the undergraduate-level colleges and universities agreed by the Ministry of Education this year, the reporter found that there are 3 in Xinjiang, of which the first batch of majors set up by Xinjiang Institute of Technology cover intelligent mining engineering, electrical engineering and automation, intelligent manufacturing engineering, automation, data science and big data technology.
Fujian Fuyao University of Science and Technology, which is also a newly approved undergraduate university, has been clearly positioned as a new type of research university, focusing on the national strategy and the needs of economic and social development, focusing on the research of manufacturing science and technology innovation and cultivating top-notch innovative talents.
In light of the actual situation of local economic development, many provinces and cities are now in full swing to build new universities or upgrade the level and scale of existing universities. Recently, the Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission released a report, which mentioned that the third round of high-level university construction will be further promoted, and the construction of Shenzhen Ocean University Phase I, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Shenzhen) Phase I Advanced Research Institute, SUSTech School of Semiconductors, and Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen) School of Medicine will be accelerated.
In addition, the number of local universities is constantly being optimized according to the size of the population. As the province with the largest number of applicants for the college entrance examination in recent years, the number of colleges and universities in Henan Province currently ranks first in the country. Education policy researchers said that in the next step, all localities need to further optimize the structure of higher education according to economic and social development to meet the needs of high-quality development.
(CCTV News User Terminal)