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The higher vocational education management quality evaluation is viewed as the multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). In this paper, the cross-entropy method under The fuzzy number intuitionistic fuzzy sets (FNIFSs) is built based on the traditional cross-entropy method. Firstly, the FNIFSs is introduced. Then, combine the traditional fuzzy cross-entropy method with FNIFSs information, the cross-entropy method is established for MADM under FNIFSs. 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