China's higher education is divided into three academic levels: junior college, undergraduate and postgraduate. Postgraduate is the highest academic level, but postgraduate can be divided into postgraduate and doctoral students according to academic qualifications, and doctoral students are the highest academic level of higher education.
When a doctoral student graduates, he can obtain a full-time doctoral diploma and the corresponding 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.
The scale of doctoral education in China is controlled. Only a few schools can recruit doctoral students, and the number of students enrolled is very small, which forms a ratio of 10: 1. In addition, in order to facilitate understanding, we can refer to the policy classification of complete academic education in China: middle school students include junior high school students and high school students, college students include junior college students and undergraduates, and graduate students include master students and doctoral students.
Among them, graduate students are referred to as master students for short, and what people say in daily life refers to master students. Doctoral students are referred to as doctoral students for short, and doctors in people's daily life refer to doctoral students. The degrees are arranged in the order of bachelor, master and doctor, and the doctor is higher.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Doctor.