Scientific evaluation is conducive to promoting the reform of higher education in China and the construction and development of higher vocational colleges.In 2016,the Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation established a new index system on the basis of many years' research,and evaluated and analyzed 1336 higher vocational colleges (including 308 private higher vocational colleges) from multiple perspectives.Results showed that:regional disparity,especially regional population and economic disparity,affects the educational level of higher vocational colleges; except for some institutions,the differences in competitiveness of higher vocational colleges are not obvious in the same stage; the average level of comprehensive competitiveness of private higher vocational colleges has not yet reached the national average,which is caused by talent cultivation.