More than 37m students in China’s higher education last year

A total of 37.79 million students received higher education across China in 2017, with gross student-enrolment at 45.7 per cent, the Ministry of Education said. According to a ministry annual report, China had 2613 general higher education institutions last year, consisting of 1243 undergraduate colleges, 1388 higher vocational colleges and 282 adult higher education schools.

There were 815 graduate education institutions, consisting of 578 general colleges and 237 scientific research institutions.

The report also showed that the country had 255,000 kindergartens in 2017, increasing by 15,100 from the previous year.