As we all know, the number of applicants for the 20 19 postgraduate entrance examination is 2.9 million. At that time, it was estimated that the enrollment ratio was 3.6: 1, which was significantly higher than 20 18. The data finally released by the Ministry of Education confirmed the accuracy of this prediction.
Why does the enrollment increase, followed by the enrollment expansion of graduate students, but the enrollment ratio has decreased? Of course, the reason is simple: although the number of graduate students has been increasing in the past 20 years, the growth rate is much lower than that of the number of applicants, resulting in a continuous increase in the proportion of graduate students enrolled.
However, like the postgraduate entrance examination in 2020, the number of applicants not only exceeded 3 million, but also reached 34 1 10,000, which was really unexpected.
The following figure shows the relevant data of the 20-year postgraduate entrance examination:
Enrolment rate data of postgraduate entrance examination in recent 20 years
It can be clearly seen that the enrollment expansion of graduate students in China started from 1999, and 200 1 is a year of large enrollment expansion. So we can see that the enrollment ratio of graduate students has changed greatly in recent years. Starting from 20 19, the enrollment ratio began to climb again.
Many people know that graduate students expand their enrollment every year, but they don't know what the specific expansion is.
Postgraduate education in China is divided into degree and professional degree. In recent years, the so-called "graduate" enrollment expansion is mainly aimed at the expansion of professional degrees, and many graduate students have not expanded their enrollment.
10 years ago, due to the small scale of graduate education for professional degrees, graduate students in China could not meet the growing needs of society, and some scholars advocated rapidly expanding the training scale. Scholars' reasons are as follows:
Economic development and scientific and technological progress have diversified requirements for applied talents; Some highly professional industries have shifted their focus to the demand for talents, and the quality of existing employees cannot meet the demand; The probability of master's directly entering scientific research teaching is greatly reduced; Most graduate students choose employment after graduation; A large number of undergraduate graduates who directly enter the practical work field need to improve their posts.
Therefore, scholars believe that it is urgent to expand the scale of professional degree education, and rationally coordinate the scale ratio between professional degrees and academic degrees and the scale ratio between different professional degrees.