Comparative research on reform of undergraduate education in research universities between America and China

Undergraduate education is the principal part of higher education,and is the key period to lay the foundation for sustainable and lifelong development of people.It is worth discussing and studying how to exert peculiar advantages of research universities to provide an excellent undergraduate education,such as the advantages of faculty,facilities,majors and students.From the angle of ten suggestions put in the report of Undergraduate Education:A Blueprint for America's Research Universities,the article is to compare the reform of undergraduate education in research universities between America and China on the basis of Reinventing Undergraduate Education:Three Years After the Boyer Report and the undergraduate quality self-evaluation report of Chinese research universities.In order to provide theoratical and practical implication for research universities of China,it analyses and diagnoses the problems in the reform of undergraduate education of the two countries and predicts the trend of undergraduate education reform in the future.