The top ten vocational schools in Shanxi are as follows:

Shanxi Province Finance and Taxation College is located in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, is a full-time higher vocational school to train higher financial and applied talents, and is one of the first batch of national model higher vocational colleges. The school now enrolls students from 8 provinces in China, with 5015 full-time students and 741 correspondence students. Since the founding of the school, it has delivered 39,055 full-time graduates to society and trained 128,476 in-service cadres.

Shanxi Vocational and Technical College is a general higher vocational and technical college subordinate to the Department of Education of Shanxi Province, which was recognized by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance as a "National Model Backbone Higher Vocational Colleges and Universities Construction Unit" in 2010. The college consists of four secondary colleges, namely, Materials and Construction Engineering College, Information Engineering College, Logistics and Business College and Mechanical Engineering College, which are located in four campuses. 2013, the construction project of the new campus in Taiyuan Dongshan, which covers an area of 1,050 acres, has been approved by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

Shanxi Construction Vocational and Technical College is a national model backbone higher vocational college and one of the longest and largest higher vocational colleges in Shanxi Province, formerly known as Shanxi Construction Engineering School, which was founded in 1952 as a national key secondary school, and is located at No. 50 Xuefu Street in Taiyuan City, subordinate to the Shanxi Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and under the leadership of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Education in terms of its business.