A Critical Review of Quality Assessment Systems for Private Universities in Mainland China

Xuan Zhao, Chaocheng Zhou, Xuqing Xu

Zhejiang Shuren University (China)

China's private undergraduate institutions are undergoing a strategic transformation period, transitioning from scale expansion to connotative development. The deepening development of their evaluation system is accompanied by the launch, establishment, improvement, and upgrading of the national private undergraduate teaching evaluation, reflecting the process of modernization of higher education governance. The current national policies involve the evaluation of private undergraduate institutions. Local evaluations focus on the annual inspection of these institutions, and third-party evaluations are also active. However, the evaluation of private undergraduate institutions still faces three significant challenges: the applicability of evaluation standards, competition over evaluation elements, and structural difficulties in evaluation. The scientific and applicability of the evaluation index system for private undergraduate programs have attracted much attention, and communication between the research team and the evaluation team is urgent. The construction of a high-quality development evaluation system for private undergraduate colleges warrants careful consideration.

Article link: https://www.asianinstituteofresearch.org/EQRarchives/a-critical-review-of-quality-assessment-systems-for-private-universities-in-mainland-china