Quality is the degree of a set of inherent characteristics to satisfy requirements. The quality of higher education means that whether the property of higher education can satisfy the requirements of higher education subjects and the satisfaction degree. From the external view, it is a value judgment that can be accepted by the public; from the internal view, it is also a result reached by internal attributes of the higher education. For the satisfaction of higher education to requirements of users, because users are different, requirements are various and the requirements have variability, the satisfaction of requirements is highly subjective, which make it difficult to make a unified quantitative standard for quality, especially the development of nonintellectual factors like consciousness and emotions, is lack of ‘standard’ and it is hard to be exactly measured or expressed; while the mastering of some professional knowledge and application skills can be directly or indirectly measured or judged. Students’ engagement into study should highly be focused on when measuring the quality of higher education.
“Quality of education is the essential question of development of higher educationâ€[1]. With the gradual establishment of the socialist market economy system of China, new requirements were put forward to higher education and the quality of education also further draws the wide attentions of all sectors of the society. Some scholars indicated long ago that, “It is still the central issue of the reform and development of current higher education institutions to continually improve the education quality of HEIs adapting to the development of socialist market economy.â€