Abstract:

With a gradual establishment of the socialist market economic system the legal relationship between college and student has had a remarkable change. In particular, the implement of the cost compensative system of higher education has promoted a gradual transformation of the legal relationship between college and student in China's higher education from special authority to educational contract. The properties of the educational contracted relationship determine a necessary respect for educational consumers' actively selective rights, thus guaranteeing their lawful rights and benefits.

Key words: educational contract, educational consumption, selective right