Professional degree is a kind of degree relative to academic degree, and its purpose is to cultivate applied senior professionals with solid theoretical foundation and meeting the actual needs of specific industries or occupations. The master of education is an academic graduate student, and the professional degree and academic degree are at the same level, but the training specifications are different and the training objectives are obviously different. The degree is established according to disciplines, oriented by academic research, emphasizing theory and research, and cultivating university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions; Professional degree is oriented to professional practice, attaches importance to practice and application, and trains senior talents with formal and high-level training in specialty and specialized technology.

In addition to the basic training objectives, the academic master's degree and the professional master's degree in education have different examination subjects. The public course of Master of Education takes ideological and political theory and English I, and the specialized course takes only one specialized course in a set of papers. The exam is often "Comprehensive Basic Pedagogy", with a full score of 300 and an examination time of 3 hours. However, the English of full-time master of education takes more than two English exams, and the professional courses are divided into two courses. One is "comprehensive education", code 333, the national given examination outline, the independent proposition of each school, full score 150, and the examination time is 3 hours; The other course examines the contents of related professional courses. For example, subject teaching (Chinese) examines the integration of Chinese teaching methods or basic Chinese knowledge, and education management examines the professional course of education management, with a full score of 150 and an examination time of 3 hours.

It can be seen that the academic master and professional master of pedagogy are different. The former focuses on theoretical research, such as the principles of pedagogy, the history of education in China and the history of foreign education, while the latter focuses on practicality and application. Therefore, diligent education experts remind everyone that when choosing education for postgraduate study, we must first distinguish what is academic and what is professional, and know ourselves and know ourselves. If we don't even know the basic content of our exam, how can we prepare for it next?