| 20-22 Number of Institutions of Higher Education by Region and Type (2001) | |||||||||||||||
| (unit) | |||||||||||||||
| Region | Total | Comprehensive | Science and | Agriculture | Forestry | Medicine | Teacher | Linguistics | Economics | Politics | Physical | Art | Nationality | Short-cycle | |
| Universities | Engineering | Training | and Literacy | and Finance | and Law | Culture | Institutes | Academy | Vocational | ||||||
| Colleges | |||||||||||||||
| National Total | 1225 | 91 | 231 | 42 | 6 | 96 | 210 | 15 | 65 | 28 | 14 | 29 | 12 | 386 | |
| Beijing | 61 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | |
| Tianjin | 33 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | ||||
| Hebei | 63 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23 | |||||
| Shanxi | 33 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 12 | ||||||
| Inner Mongolia | 20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Liaoning | 66 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | ||
| Jilin | 35 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Heilongjiang | 41 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||||
| Shanghai | 45 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |||
| Jiangsu | 73 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | |||
| Zhejiang | 39 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||
| Anhui | 52 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 24 | |||||||
| Fujian | 32 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||
| Jiangxi | 33 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Shandong | 65 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22 | ||||
| Henan | 64 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 24 | ||||||
| Hubei | 60 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 21 | |||
| Hunan | 61 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 22 | |||||
| Guangdong | 62 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 | |||
| Guangxi | 30 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Hainan | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| Chongqing | 29 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Sichuan | 49 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||
| Guizhou | 30 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||||||
| Yunnan | 28 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Tibet | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Shaanxi | 47 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | |||
| Gansu | 25 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Qinghai | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Ningxia | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Xinjiang | 21 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||