2. Planned Degree/Diploma Education

 1. Higher junior college education: (1)the "full-time junior college education" refers to the education enrolling the high school graduates who have passed the unified national college entrance examination to receive higher diploma education (the enrollment of students in "General Junior College Education" ceased in 2006, except for some provincial open universities carrying out the general junior college education and higher vocational education according to the local education plan; (2) the "Adult Junior College Education" refers to a part-time or full-time education (including the education for a second junior college diploma) enrolling the students who have finished high school or have the same educational background and have passed the exam organized by the national adult higher learning institutions,2. "Diploma-to-Degree" education refers to the education enrolling the students who have passed the national entrance examination. 3. "Secondary Technical Education".

In 2008, 125,200 junior college students in the open universities in China graduated, 66,500 were enrolled and there were 181,400 active students. Among which, there were 70,200 graduates, 12,600 newly recruited students and 41,200 active students under the full-time junior college programme; there were 55,000 graduates, 53,900 new enrollment students and 140,200 active students under the adult junior college programme.

In 2008, under the diploma-to-degree programme, there were 105 graduates, 507 newly recruited students and 770 active students.

In 2008, there were 328 majors in ten fields of study and 48 second-rank disciplines provided by the adult junior college programme and “diploma-to-degree” programme in the open universities in China. See Table 5 for detail.

Table 5. The number of Students in Each Discipline of the Adult Degree/Diploma Education Programme in 2008