Postgraduate is a kind of qualification certification of higher education, which is generally carried out by ordinary colleges and universities with master's and doctoral degrees and scientific research institutions with postgraduate training qualifications. Graduate students are the highest education. You can also be called a graduate student after graduation, which means someone with a graduate degree.
In China, graduate students are mainly divided into full-time and part-time. Full-time graduate students are enrolled through postgraduate and doctoral entrance examinations held by institutions of higher learning and scientific research, with a minimum schooling of 2 or 3 years; Before 20 17, part-time graduate students mainly refer to on-the-job graduate students, who mainly passed the joint entrance examination on 10, and applied for postgraduate students with the same academic qualifications. From 20 17 (including 20 17), on-the-job graduate students with dual certificates are uniformly named as part-time graduate students. Part-time graduate students and full-time graduate students take the national unified examination at the end of 12, draw the same score line, and get double certificates when they graduate. Institutions that recruit and train master's and doctoral students include universities with master's and doctoral programs and related scientific research institutions.
Full-time and part-time graduate students implement the same examination enrollment policies and training standards, and their academic degree certificates have the same legal status and the same effect.
In Chinese mainland, ordinary people are used to calling master students "graduate students" and doctoral students "doctoral students".
In 20 15 years, there were * *191.4 million graduate students, 6.451.5 million students and 55 1.5 million graduates.