How many types of universities are there?

The types of universities mainly include:

1, a comprehensive university. Comprehensive universities accept both arts and sciences, and each department of comprehensive universities is independent.

2. University of science and engineering. The advantages of science and engineering universities are naturally engineering and science.

3. Normal University. Normal university is similar to a comprehensive university, but it also has many departments, such as biology department, music department, physical education department, foreign languages department and education department.

4. Professional schools. Specialized sports colleges, specialized art colleges, specialized art colleges, specialized agriculture and forestry colleges, specialized finance colleges and so on.

Material supplement:

Universities (colleges) are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, specialized universities and colleges. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.

It is not only the product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and external environmental influence.

As a university, its competitiveness can be decomposed into many factors, such as school-running concept, curriculum and discipline (specialty) setting, teachers' quality, students, hardware facilities, management system, campus environment, capital investment, contribution, social reputation and so on.

There are many kinds of universities.

1. According to disciplines, it can be divided into: comprehensive universities, polytechnic universities, normal universities, agricultural universities, medical universities, financial universities, etc. Just like their names, different universities have different disciplines. For example, normal universities focus on training normal students, while medical universities focus on training doctors.

2. According to the competent units, it can be divided into: subordinate universities and provincial universities. ;

3. According to the enrollment batch, it can be divided into: one, two, three, etc.

4. According to the degree of importance, it can be divided into: 2 1 1 project, 985 project, ordinary colleges and universities, etc. 2 1 1 project is the key construction of more than 2 1 century 100 universities and disciplines; The 985 Project focuses on supporting the creation of world-class universities and high-level universities.