First, refer to different

1. Graduation design: refers to the summative independent work of students in industrial, agricultural and forestry colleges and secondary specialized schools on the eve of graduation.

2. Graduation thesis: it is a thesis that students are required to write before graduation in order to concentrate on scientific research and training of students in this major.

Second, the content is different.

1. graduation design: under the guidance of teachers, students conduct engineering design and research on selected topics, including design, calculation, drawing, technical and economic demonstration and rationalization suggestions, and finally submit a report.

Try to choose realistic topics that are combined with production and scientific research tasks, or do fake topics. After passing the examination, students can carry out theoretical courses, course design and practice as stipulated in the teaching plan. It is an important basis for evaluating graduation performance. Students can only graduate if they pass the graduation design defense and pass the grade evaluation.

2. Graduation thesis: The topic is designated by the teacher or put forward by the students, and determined with the consent of the teacher. They are all theoretical and practical problems raised in the development or practice of this major. Through this link, students should take related scientific research topics as topics, consult and comment on the literature, and make research plans.

Design and conduct scientific experiments or social surveys, process data or sort out survey results, analyze demonstration results, draw conclusions, write papers and other pre-training.

Third, the roles are different.

1. Graduation design: It aims to cultivate students' ability to solve practical problems by comprehensively applying the theories, knowledge and skills they have learned.

2. Graduation thesis: cultivate students' scientific research ability; Strengthen the training of comprehensively applying the learned knowledge, theory and skills to solve practical problems; Generally speaking, it examines the academic level achieved by students in universities.

The purpose of graduation thesis:

1, cultivate students' scientific research ability.

2, strengthen the comprehensive application of knowledge, theory and skills to solve practical problems training.

3. Generally, students' academic level in university is examined.

The significance of graduation thesis:

1. Writing graduation thesis is an important measure to test students' academic performance in school and an important link to improve teaching quality.

2. By writing graduation thesis, improving the writing level is the need of the "four modernizations" construction of cadres.

3. Improving college students' writing level is the need of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization construction.