Abstract: University admission quota arrangement, especially that allocated by province, is of an important impact upon regional higher education admission opportunity and higher education development, which has long been given wide attention by all walks of life, and National Medium and Long-term Educational Reform and Development Program also proposes explicitly that the allocation of university admission quota should be made perfect. In order to reasonably allocate the university undergraduate student admission quota and minimize the possible subjective casualness during policy-making, this paper has systematically analyzed the main factors that influence the allocation of university admission quota, and it’s necessary to set up a regional allocation model of admission quota for provincial universities. Based on the goal orientation of the allocation model and the building principles of the Indicator System, the author establishes an indicator system of regional allocation model of admission quota for provincial universities. The indicator system includes three first-level indicators, seven second-level indicators and twelve third-level indicators, which aiming to offer policy-making grounds for regional allocation of nationwide admission quota for provincial universities.

Key words: provincial university admission quota, allocation model, indicator system