Part-time graduate students refer to those who have passed the national unified postgraduate entrance examination (national unified examination), been admitted by institutions of higher learning or other institutions of higher learning with the qualification of postgraduate education, obtained the unified enrollment qualification of graduate students in ordinary colleges and universities, studied flexible hours within the basic study period or the years specified by the school, and obtained the graduation certificate and corresponding postgraduate degree certificate of ordinary colleges and universities after completing the credits. Ordinary higher education, which belongs to the elimination and selection system, is admitted on the basis of merit.

Part-time graduate students are different from in-service graduate students. Traditional on-the-job graduate students only have a degree certificate, not a diploma.

After 20 17, part-time postgraduate students will be established on the basis of full-time postgraduate education. Both part-time graduate students and full-time graduate students belong to general higher education (unified recruitment), and they all have to pass the national unified entrance examination for graduate students, both of which belong to the unified recruitment plan. After graduation, I also got the double certificates of graduate diploma and degree certificate of general higher education, but the learning methods are different. Full-time and part-time ordinary graduate students implement the same examination enrollment policy, training and graduation standards, and their academic certificates and degree certificates have the same legal status and the same effect.