Postgraduate is a kind of qualification certification of national education, which is generally carried out by ordinary universities with master's and doctoral degrees. You can also be called a graduate student after graduation, which means someone with a graduate degree.
In China, graduate students are divided into master students and doctoral students. According to different degrees, it can be divided into academic graduate students and professional graduate students. Academic graduate students generally refer to graduate students with academic degrees and established according to disciplines. They are oriented to academic research, emphasize theory and research, and mainly train university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions.
Professional graduate students, at the same level as degree graduate students, are applied senior professionals with a solid theoretical foundation and meet the actual needs of specific industries or occupations.
The unified recruitment of graduate students in general higher education includes full-time graduate students and part-time graduate students, and students are enrolled through the national unified entrance examination for master's and doctoral students or the recommended exemption examination. Before 20 17, on-the-job graduate students refer to on-the-job graduate students, who mainly passed the 10 entrance examination and enrolled students with equivalent academic qualifications. Traditional on-the-job graduate students have no postgraduate education but only a degree certificate.