Abstract:Compared with ancient Chinese academies and Western residential colleges, the development of modern academies in China has its own characteristics: they are based on the reality of “late development”; they take “embedded” promotion strategy and consciously pursue self-development. As in China's modern universities, universities came before academies, most academies in China's universities choose “embedded” development strategy in accordance with their own characteristics. More specifically, they renovate existing buildings, establish academy committees on the basis of existing organizational structures, and “embed” general education courses in the school's curriculum. As a new thing, modern academies are getting increasingly better, but have many difficulties in concept identification, organizational barriers, and cultural connotation. For further development of modern academies, “integration” is the trend. On the one hand, more importance should be attached to top-level design to achieve the integration of education concept. On the other hand, deepening reform should be promoted to achieve the integration of education organizations. Finally, more efforts should be put in the connotation construction of the academies to promote the integration of university culture.