The Overview of Local Undergraduate Universities in China

Abstract

This chapter involves exploring local undergraduate universities in China from the perspectives of background, policy, and practice. In particular, local undergraduate universities in urgent need of breakthrough, policy support of providing legitimacy and resources for application-oriented transformation, and practical dilemma of insufficient applied transformation system have been examined in this chapter. In the process of the development of higher education, the government has a single evaluation standard for colleges and universities, and colleges and universities are homogeneous in terms of their positioning, educational objectives, educational concepts, institutional setup, teaching methods and management methods. Many colleges and universities have not formed unique competitive advantages and characteristics. Local newly built undergraduate universities are late in upgrading, lack of discipline accumulation and limited financial allocation. As a result, they are in a weak position in the homogenized higher education system, so they are in urgent need of breaking through and finding a suitable development path. It is a better strategy to solve the competitive disadvantage of the higher education echelon to carry out application-oriented transformation in newly established local universities.