1, different definitions
Professional degree: A professional degree is a degree relative to a degree. Its purpose is to cultivate applied senior professionals who have a solid theoretical foundation and meet the actual needs of specific industries or occupations.
Academicdegree: Academic degree is also called general degree, including bachelor, master and doctor.
2. Different training objectives
Professional degree: Professional degree and academic degree are at the same level, with different training specifications. Professional degrees are oriented to professional practice, attach importance to practice and application, and cultivate senior talents who have undergone formal and high-level training in specialty and specialized technology.
Degree: Degree is set according to disciplines, oriented by academic research, emphasizing theory and research, and training university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions.
3. Different cultivation methods
The professional master's course is oriented to practical application, aims at professional needs, and takes the improvement of comprehensive literacy and applied knowledge and ability as the core. The teaching content emphasizes the organic combination of theory and application courses, highlighting case analysis and practical research; The teaching process attaches importance to the use of team learning, case analysis, field research and simulation training; Focus on cultivating students' awareness and ability to study practical problems. In the specific learning process, it is required to have at least half a year of practical links, and the proportion of practical credits is greater than that of academic degrees.
The curriculum of academic master focuses on strengthening the study of basic theories and cultivating students' ability and quality of scientific research and innovation.
4. The adjustment requirements are different.
5. Different academic systems
Specifically, the professional master's academic system is generally 2-3 years, and the academic master's academic system is generally 3 years (some professional academic masters have the same academic system). The specific situation is subject to the policies of each enrollment unit in the current year.
6. Diplomas are awarded in different ways.
Academic degree: academic master's degree and diploma are awarded at the same time.
Professional degree: According to different learning methods, in-service professional degree education only grants degree certificates, but there are exceptions, such as MBA, LLM, master and doctor of medicine, bachelor and master of architecture, and "double certificates" that pay equal attention to degree certificates and academic certificates.
Full-time professional degree graduates are awarded graduation certificates and degree certificates, and their status is the same as that of full-time academic degree graduates.
Postgraduate courses and postgraduate degrees, "postgraduate courses" is a kind of non-academic education, which mainly teaches some core courses of postgraduate majors, without entrance examinations, academic qualifications and degree certificates.
Requirements for professional degrees:
1, a citizen of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China).
2, support the leadership of China * * *, moral integrity, law-abiding.
3. Good health meets the physical examination requirements of the state and enrollment units.
4. Candidates must meet one of the following conditions:
(1) Graduates with nationally recognized academic qualifications must obtain a nationally recognized undergraduate diploma before September 1 of the year of enrollment. Including adult higher education, self-study exams and online education organized by undergraduate students in ordinary colleges and adult colleges.
(2) Persons with a nationally recognized undergraduate degree.
(3) Two years after graduation (from September of that year 1), according to the training objectives, people who have reached the same academic level as undergraduate graduates and meet the specific business requirements of the enrollment unit. The following) or above, has been recognized by the state.
(4) Undergraduate graduates recognized by the state shall apply for the exam according to the same academic qualifications as undergraduate graduates.
(5) Persons who have obtained master's or doctor's degrees.