🇨🇳 2,952 institutions · 31 provinces
Every university and college in China, from the Ministry's own list.
Each June China's Ministry of Education publishes the list of institutions allowed to enrol students. This is the 2026 list — all 2,952 — by province, with English names and websites where Wikidata has them.
Undergraduate institutions (本科)
1,412
and 1,540 vocational colleges (专科).
Private (民办)
840
plus 16 joint-venture or foreign campuses.
Run by the Ministry of Education itself
76
The rest answer to their province or another central body.
The Ministry's list covers regular higher-education institutions on the mainland; Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are outside it, and adult-education institutions are listed separately. English names and websites come from Wikidata, where an institution has them. The separate adult-education list has 244 institutions.
By province
Universities run by the Ministry of Education (76)
China's national universities — supervised directly by the Ministry rather than a province.
What China doesn't publish
No per-institution tuition register, no central gaokao cut-offs (each province publishes its own, with no licence to reuse them) and no graduate earnings at institution level. Student numbers shown come from Wikidata and only where it has them.
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Institutions: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 全国普通高等学校名单 (as at 17 June 2026), restructured by CollegeMatcher. English names, websites, founding years and student numbers: Wikidata (CC0), matched on the Ministry's school code.