Chinese Higher Education Enrollment Policy: Fairness of System for Students’ Choice of University

Abstract

China has made a great progress in the expansion of higher education system in recent years. The enrollments into higher education institutes has been increased from 3% in 1991 to 27% in 2010 and it is projected that gross enrolment rate in higher education will increase to 40% by 2020. China has made a lot of policies and reforms during this massive expansion of its higher education system. This paper deals with the enrollment policy for students in which students has to make choice for university before or after taking College Entrance Exam. The focus of this paper is, how much fair is this system for the Chinese students to make choice for university, challenges for students in making choice for university, different governmental policies in different provinces which creates imbalance between students and universities and what government should do to bring fairness in enrollment system.