By 1998 in ethnic autonomous areas, there were 94 institutions of higher learning with 226,400 students, 13,466 middle schools with 5.2964 million students, and 90,704 primary schools with 12.409 million pupils.

• 到1998年，全国少数民族自治地区有普通高等学校94所，在校生22.；64万人；中学13466所，在校生529