Master, that is, graduate students studying for a master's degree, referred to as master students. In daily life, people say that they have been admitted to a master's degree and read a master's degree. Compared with undergraduates, postgraduate education pays more attention to cultivating students' ability to study and analyze problems, especially their scientific research and teaching ability.

A master's degree is a graduate student between a bachelor's degree and a doctor's degree. A master's degree usually symbolizes a basic independent thinking ability.