1, different learning stages

Doctoral students are doctoral students, that is, graduate students studying for doctoral degrees, which is the highest level of postgraduate education. In people's daily life, they are admitted to doctors, read doctors and so on. Refers to a doctoral student. Strictly speaking, a student who has not obtained a doctorate can only be called a doctoral student.

"Doctoral candidate" refers to a doctoral student who has completed his doctoral studies, started writing a thesis, and has not yet participated in the defense.

2. Different titles

Doctoral students are still in the learning stage, and their professional title is "doctoral students"; And "doctor candidate" is called "quasi-doctor" in some countries in Britain and America.

Extended data:

China's higher education is divided into three academic levels: junior college, undergraduate and postgraduate, with postgraduate as the highest, but postgraduate can be divided into master students and doctoral students according to their academic qualifications, and doctoral students are the highest academic level in higher education. When a doctoral student graduates, he can get a full-time doctoral diploma and a doctoral degree certificate.

Those who study for a doctoral degree on the job with the same academic qualifications can only obtain a degree certificate, and their academic qualifications are still the same, such as undergraduate or master's degree.

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