Ordinary institutions of higher learning
This is the main destination of theoretical majors such as educational principles, educational history, higher education, comparative education and educational philosophy. But now it is more and more difficult for master students to enter colleges and universities, and basically they all require doctoral degrees. Therefore, graduate students who want to go in these directions should be prepared for doctoral studies if they want to go to colleges and universities.
Primary and secondary schools
At present, the new curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools in China is developing vigorously, especially lacking talents with strong educational theory literacy. Moreover, with the continuous improvement of the treatment of primary and secondary school teachers and the relative stability of teachers' occupation, more and more graduate students majoring in pedagogy, especially curriculum and teaching theory, have begun to enter primary and secondary schools. This year, hundreds of masters from a middle school in Nanjing competed for two positions.