The digital campus is a key vehicle for the digital transformation of vocational education. Drawing on survey data of digital campus business items collected from nine higher vocational colleges in Chongqing, China, this study conducts a statistical and categorical analysis of 2,173 business items supported by 75 application systems. The findings show that: (1) the scale of construction varies dramatically across colleges, revealing a marked inter-college digital divide; (2) business coverage is unbalanced, characterized by the prioritization of teaching administration and student affairs and the lag of research management and school-enterprise cooperation; and (3) two construction models, namely decentralized system development and integrated platform development, coexist, while the depth of online workflow adoption differs considerably among colleges. Accordingly, countermeasures are proposed in four aspects: strengthening top-level design, filling gaps in underserved business areas, deepening data governance, and improving long-term mechanisms, so as to provide a reference for digital campus construction in higher vocational colleges.

Lei Peng, Fengqing Liu. Digital Campus in Higher Vocational Colleges: A Survey of Nine Colleges in Chongqing. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 7: 132-137. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090717.

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