Students are required by universities to complete registration procedures in time. Freshmen, before acquiring the status as students, are subject to re-examination.

China's universities check both students' attendance and achievement. Absence from class without any sound reason is prohibited. Participation in examination specified by the teaching programme is obligatory. When students have completed all courses offered in the programme and passed the examination, they are entitled to go up one grade. In universities where the credit system has been introduced, a credit is obtained when any student passes the examination will result in repetition, back to a lower grade or discontinuation of schooling according to school regulations.

Students of good character and scholarship are rewarded, commended and granted scholarship by China's universities.

Any foreign student in China's university is considered as an ordinary student and hence should abide by all the rules and regulations of the university.