With ID card, graduation certificate of general higher vocational education (junior college) and soldier's retirement certificate, you can apply for college entrance examination free education in adult colleges and universities in your province (district, city).
The policy of free entrance examination for junior college students: Vocational (junior college) graduates and students at school (including college freshmen) will be recruited into the military from 2022. After retirement, they can enter full-time undergraduate courses without entrance examination, or adult undergraduate courses as they wish, on the premise of completing their vocational (junior college) studies. However, before 2022, those who are retired from military service and apply for the adult college entrance examination can enter the adult undergraduate college entrance examination free of examination, and submit the completed information form for review as required.
Retired college student soldiers who have won the third class merit or above award during their service in the army are required to be exempt from the examination for college graduation before 2022, and can be admitted to relevant majors of undergraduate colleges and universities without examination. The unified recruitment category is included in the special plan for retired soldiers and implemented in accordance with the enrollment regulations of each province, such as the exemption regulations of Shanghai on the unified recruitment of retired soldiers from college to undergraduate level:
During the period of service, candidates for retired soldiers who have won the third class merit or above award can transfer to the same or similar majors of the university without examination. Those who belong to independent colleges shall be arranged by the Municipal Education Commission. All retired soldier candidates who enter the university without examination shall be filled in the Confirmation Form of "Upgrading from Junior College Students to Undergraduate Students" by the admissions office of the university where their former student status is located within the specified time and reported to the Municipal Education Commission for confirmation.
Relevant laws and regulations:
According to the Notice of the Ministry of Education on Further Implementing the Relevant Policies for Retired Soldiers to Study in Secondary Vocational Schools and Colleges and Universities (Jiao Zhi Cheng [2014] No. 4), some provincial public undergraduate ordinary colleges designated by provincial administrative departments hold the education of upgrading from ordinary junior college to undergraduate, and adopt the measures of separate planning, voluntary registration, unified examination and separate admission, Recruit students from retired soldiers in the province (district, city) who have graduated from ordinary higher vocational education (college). Students usually study in school for 2 years.
The enrollment plan of college starting point to undergraduate education is listed separately in the total scale of the annual undergraduate enrollment business plan of ordinary colleges and universities in each province (district, city) approved by the state, which generally does not exceed 30% of the number of retired soldiers in the province (district, city) that year who have graduated from ordinary higher vocational (college) education.
This year, the Ministry of Education and the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Military Commission jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Recruitment of College Students in 2020 (Jun Dong [2020] No. 485). Since 2022, college students and soldiers from ordinary vocational colleges (junior colleges) can enter ordinary undergraduate courses without examination or adult undergraduate courses according to their own wishes.
People's Daily Online - Shanghai Pudong New Area has issued a policy to encourage college graduates to join the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs of the People's Republic of China - hopes that retired soldiers can enjoy preferential educational policies for upgrading from junior college to junior college, and the Department of Veterans Affairs of Anhui Province - free from examinations for upgrading from junior college to junior college