11 universities in the world’s top 100.

92 universities in the world’s top 1300.

Tsinghua University ranks 17th, Peking University ranks 18th.

—— QS World University Ranking 2021

In 2021, there were 2,756 regular institutions of higher learning and 827 graduate training institutions in China.

In 2020, the total number of students in higher education of all kinds in China reached 41.83 million.
There were 3.14million postgraduate students in China. Among them, there are 467,000 Doctoral students and 2.673 million Master students.

There were 32.853 million undergraduate and junior college students, and 7.773 million adult undergraduate and junior college students.

Till September 2021, there are 3,012 higher education institutions in China mainland, among which 2,756 are regular colleges and universities, and 256 are adult colleges and universities.

Among the 3,012 higher education insititutions, 1004 can recruit foreign students.