In order to ameliorate the enrollment strategies of the specialty of Info rmation Management & Information System (IMIS) in Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) colleges, we collected and processed the IMIS enrollment plans in 42 Colleges from 2013 to 2016, and also the actual enrollment volume of 11 TCM colleges from 2013 to 2015. And then, we made a comparison between TCM colleges and Medical colleges in terms of enrollment scale, structure and also distribution. According to that, several

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... icant features are revealed on the IMIS enrollment plans of TCM Colleges, including frequently fluctuated enrollment scale, relatively larger enrollment scale, significant differences among regions and districts, improvement on structure and quality. And also some potential problems are brought up, such as gaps between planning enrollment and actual enrollment, disproportion with the requirement of TCM info rmatization, distribution overlap in high extent with medical colleges. It is imperative for TCM colleges to adopt a series of countermeasures to promote their enrollment quality, such as keeping their enrollment scales stable, optimizing the distribution and structure of enrollment plan corresponding with the development of TCM informatization, broadening recruiting channels and making much enrollment publicity in advance and so on. This study has gre at significance for realizing the specialty of IMIS in TCM colleges developed healthily and sustainably.