Abstract: Higher education in our country shoulders the responsibility of cultivating the builders and successors of socialist cause with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty and labor. As an important force of higher education, many application-oriented private undergraduate colleges and universities practice the concept of "student-oriented, teaching in accordance with their aptitude", as they vigorously promote the "credit system" teaching reform, innovate student management mode, and promote the formation of a new pattern of education work. However, under the credit system, private colleges and universities are confronted with such challenges as lagging educational management concepts, imperfect management mechanism, urgent need to improve the level of management team, and unscientific management content and form. Therefore, this paper proposes that private colleges and universities should establish new management concepts, improve the tutorial system, optimize the management team, create brand communities and build a network platform to build a new student management model that matches the credit system and has its own characteristics.

Key words: Application-oriented private colleges and universities, Credit system, Student management, Management model