试论日本的大学分类

On Classification of Higher Education Institutions in Japan

在以大学为研究对象时，将其划分成几种类型是不可缺少的方法论的前提。日本高等教育系统的结构，如果不把构成这个系统的多数大学划分成几种类型并进行比较研究，就无法弄清楚。本文在介绍已有的大学分类的基础上，提出了新的大学分类方法。

On the study of higher education institutions， it’s an indispensable prerequisite for researching method to classify them. It’s hard to understand the structure of higher education system in Japan if we don’t classify most of the institutions in the system into different types and compare them. On the basis of the introduction to the known classifications， the essay puts forward new methods of classification of higher education institutions.