Methodology of social sciences and higher education research

There is no right place among the frame of knowledge's classifications,namely human sciences,social sciences and natural sciences.In fact from initial humanities to subsequent scientification and social-scientification educational development's tendency is always fluctuant.Now higher education research in China was faced with the same puzzlement.This paper holds that if higher education research want to improve academic level distinctly and become social science or independent academic discipline ultimately the first and important step is to introduce methodology of social sciences.