Shenzhen has established a multi-level education system including basic education, higher education, vocational education and adult education. In August 2004, it became the first education city in Guangdong Province. In 2006, the educational attainment rate of children aged 3 to 6 in Shenzhen reached 98%, the nine-year compulsory education enrollment rate reached 100%, and the college entrance examination enrollment rate reached over 92%, basically reaching the level of developed countries. English education in Shenzhen is developed, and students who have completed compulsory education have stronger English skills than those in the mainland. By the end of 2012, the total number of schools at all levels and types in Shenzhen reached 1,856, 99 more than the previous year; 346,400 graduates, 442,700 enrollments, and 1,518,400 students, an increase of 11.2, 4.2, and 5.8 respectively.
At the end of 2016, the city’s total number of schools at all levels and types reached 2,310, 114 more than the previous year; 442,400 graduates, 553,400 enrollments, and 1.9586 million students, an increase of 6.1, 5.0 and 4.3. At the end of the year, there were 1,579 kindergartens in the city, an increase of 90; there were 463,300 children in kindergarten, an increase of 5.7%. There are 337 primary schools, an increase of 3; there are 911,000 students in schools, an increase of 5.3. There are 352 general middle schools, an increase of 17; there are 396,500 students in the school, an increase of 2.9. There were 12 general colleges and universities throughout the year, with an enrollment of 28,500, an increase of 3.1%; 25,500 graduates, an increase of 8.9%; and 91,900 students on campus, an increase of 1.5%.
The undergraduate institutions in Shenzhen include: Shenzhen University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen BIT Moscow State University.
Shenzhen University is assisted by Peking University in the construction of Chinese and foreign language disciplines, Tsinghua University in the construction of electronics and architecture disciplines, and Renmin University of China in the construction of economics and law disciplines. The school's education levels range from bachelor's, master's to Doctoral education. Shenzhen University is the only comprehensive university in Shenzhen and the largest undergraduate institution in Shenzhen.
Shenzhen University has 27 teaching colleges and 90 undergraduate majors. There are 5 national-level specialty majors:
Electronic information engineering, architecture, business administration, computer science and technology, and finance.
Shenzhen ranks first among cities in mainland China in terms of the number of invention patents per 10,000 people, and is one of the "Top Ten Cities in China for Scientific Research" selected by Nature magazine. In 2011, the number of domestic invention patents granted in Shenzhen was 11,826, ranking second among large and medium-sized cities in the country. In 2011, the number of PCT applications in Shenzhen was 7,933, ranking first in the country for eight consecutive years. [36]? In 2011, the output value of high-tech products was 1.187561 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.7%. It accounted for 58.2% of the total industrial output value above designated size, an increase of 2.3 percentage points from the previous year. At the end of 2015, there were 1.353 million professional and technical personnel of various types in Shenzhen, an increase of 5.6% over the previous year, of which 415,000 were professional and technical personnel with intermediate technical titles or above, an increase of 4.4%. At the end of the year, the number of domestic patent applications was 105,481, an increase of 28.2%. The number of domestic patent authorizations was 72,120, an increase of 34.3%.