According to Bo Du, Commissioner for Education and Cultural Cooperation of the French Embassy, the new? 358 academic system? Namely LMD (license plate? Master? Doctor), from passing the senior high school entrance examination (equivalent to the college entrance examination in China), the undergraduate course is 3 years, the master's degree is 5 years, and the doctor's degree is 8 years. For France, the biggest change is to replace the previous four-year master's degree with a new five-year master's degree.
Among the international students entering French universities, there are many kinds of diplomas and different academic systems, even in France, the academic system is very complicated. Therefore, people are used to expressing the years of higher education in the form of BAC (that is, senior high school entrance examination diploma)+X. China's bachelor's degree is equivalent to? BAC+4？ In the original French academic system, you can have a master's degree after four years of higher education. It is understood that the new academic system implemented in Europe can also be expressed by the certificate of high school entrance examination plus the number of years of higher education. BAC+3？ Equivalent to a bachelor's degree; ? BAC+5？ Equal to the new owner; ? BAC+8？ Equivalent to a doctorate.
Comprehensive universities have wide entrance and strict exit.
In French public universities, every student, French or foreigner, can get almost free higher education.
There are 90 comprehensive universities in France, 87 of which are public educational institutions, and free education is implemented. Students do not need to pass the college entrance examination, but only need to pay a registration fee of 200 to 500 euros a year to go to school. Three other comprehensive universities run by the Catholic Church require students to pay tuition fees. French comprehensive universities have a wide range of majors, including arts, science, economics, law and art, and now French comprehensive universities are implementing new? 358 academic system? .
Yang Ping, director of the Beijing Office of the French Agency for International Education Cooperation, reminded candidates that although French comprehensive universities are not as strict as the entrance selection of China's college entrance examination, they want to pass the study exams in the first two years and finally get a diploma in the third year, and the elimination rate can reach 30%. The elimination rate of international students will be higher.
To study in France, you should also know the French diploma information. French diplomas are varied, not as simple as junior college, undergraduate course, master's degree and doctor's degree in China. In France, there are national diplomas, diplomas recognized by professional organizations (chambers of commerce and industry, engineers' associations) and diplomas from private schools. Comprehensive universities provide short-term education of 1 to 2 years for some disciplines, and the diplomas obtained by students are only recognized by the issuing schools.