As of June 20, 2025, there are a total of 3,167 colleges and universities across the country, including: 2,919 ordinary colleges and universities, including 1,365 undergraduate schools and 1,554 higher vocational (junior college) schools; 248 adult high schools. This list does not include colleges and universities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
At present, there are a total of 39 985 universities in the country, 1116 211 universities, 985 universities must be 211 universities, and 211 universities are not necessarily 985 universities, so excluding 39 985 universities, there are 77 211 universities in the country.
As of October 18, 2025, the universities that have opened undergraduate applications for foreign students in September 2026 are:
Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Tianjin University, China Agricultural University, East China University of Science and Technology, etc.
Some 985 universities will close the admission application for foreign undergraduate students in September of the same year on the last day of February, some 985 universities will close their admission applications from March to April, and many 985 universities and 211 universities will close their admission applications in May and June.
The application deadline for foreign undergraduate students varies from university to university every year, and the application deadline for admission in September 2026 is:
Tsinghua University is at 5 p.m. on February 28, 2026, Fudan University is on March 6, 2026, Tianjin University is April 15, 2026, China Agricultural University is on May 31, 2026, and Tianjin University is April 15, 2026.
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