The three schools are the popular name of the people's "independent colleges", independent colleges are a type of colleges and universities existing in China, which are generally organized by public colleges and universities in cooperation with social organizations or individuals, and use non-state financial funds to organize institutions of higher learning that implement undergraduate education. With the combined admission of the third batch of undergraduates and the second batch of undergraduates in various provinces, coupled with the successive transfer of independent colleges, the concept of "three schools" no longer exists. However, it is still Xi to call the existing independent colleges "three schools".
According to the plan of the Ministry of Education, by the end of 2020, all independent colleges must clarify the transfer plan and complete the transfer as soon as possible, as of now, there are 164 colleges and universities on the list of the Ministry of Education in the form of independent colleges, including Chengdu University of Foreign Chinese and Communication, Kunming University of Media and Communication, Dianchi University, Shanxi Institute of Electronic Science and Technology is being publicized and independent colleges that have been officially announced to stop enrollment but have not been revoked.
According to the statistics of the Higher Education Digital Bureau, there are more than 330 independent colleges approved by the Ministry of Education, of which 26 have been converted to public colleges, 5 have been revoked, and the rest have been converted to private universities. There are a total of 412 private undergraduate colleges in the country, and one-third of them are converted from independent colleges. So let's take a look at which people are transferred from independent colleges.
1. North China and Northeast China (35 institutes).
In North China, there are a total of 8 private schools transferred from independent colleges, and the transfer of the two municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing and Tianjin is not ideal.
There are a total of 27 private colleges in Northeast China, of which Shenyang Institute of Technology is currently the only private undergraduate college in the country that has been transferred by the merger of two independent colleges. Universities in the Northeast are abundant, but the number of students in the schools is smaller than that of the universities in the South.
In East China, there are a total of 26 independent colleges that have been transferred from independent colleges, but the transfer of independent colleges in Jiangsu Province, which is at the forefront of reform, is very slow. To date, there are still more than 20 independent colleges that have not yet been converted. There are also 15 independent colleges in Zhejiang that have not been converted, but 5 independent colleges in Zhejiang have been converted into public ordinary undergraduate colleges, and there is a great determination to improve the quality of higher education. Jingdezhen Vocational University of the Arts is currently the only private vocational undergraduate university directly converted from an independent college.
There are 30 private colleges in central China, especially 18 in Hubei, making Hubei not only a center of higher education in central China, but also a gathering place for private higher education. Central China is a more concentrated population area, but also a more concentrated area of private education, Wuhan and Zhengzhou two national central cities have a large number of private colleges and universities, and with the gathering of higher education resources, began to form a resource spillover effect like Hangzhou and Nanjing.
In South China, there are 17 private colleges transferred from independent colleges, and Guangdong accounts for 12 of them
A total of 21 private colleges have been transferred from independent colleges in the southwest region, plus the 3 recently approved, it has reached 24, and the number of private colleges and universities reflects the activity of the private economy to a certain extent, and the performance of the southwest region exceeds the cognition.
Xi'an is a highland of higher education, and it is also a city where private higher education started earlier, but there are still 10 independent colleges in Xi'an that have not yet completed the transfer. On the contrary, Gansu has completed all the independent college conversion work.
Jiahua College of Beijing Technology and Business University was renamed Beijing Institute of Financial TechnologyAnhui Normal University Wanjiang College was renamed Wuhu College;The School of Information Engineering of Fuyang Normal University was transformed into Fuyang Institute of TechnologyZhangjiajie College of Jishou University was renamed Zhangjiajie College. The above-mentioned four independent colleges have already passed the publicity procedures of the Ministry of Education, and may also receive the approval of the Ministry of Education at any time like Chengdu Foreign Chinese College. Then the number of private colleges and universities converted from independent colleges will reach 142.