Private Colleges in China: Their Core Competences and Future Development

Private colleges in China have the dual natures of public products and profit-driven entities. Since the late 1970s, private higher education began, the positioning and development model are in the process of constantly updated and improved. In this paper, I try to describe the current situation of the development through the development scale, development model and development characteristics of the private higher education in China, analyze the internal and external influencing factors in the development process of private higher education emphatically. In the end, propose the countermeasures and suggestions for the future development of private colleges. Conclusions: Private colleges should design strategy under the guidance of national policy, choose the future development mode actively; Strive for government support and subsidies actively; Guide the whole society's investment in private higher education actively; Improve the ability and level of teaching staff; Pay special attention to students' recruitment, cultivating and employment, to improve students' quality.