Each school has different rules and regulations and different professional nature, so the academic system will be different. Most American graduate students need 2-3 years to get a degree certificate, and some graduate students may need 3-4 years to get a degree certificate.
If you go to the United States to study business, the general business graduate students are probably one-year. The university with the shortest major in finance and accounting only needs 9 months. The shortest academic system for graduate students majoring in statistics in the United States is one year, such as Yale University, and a little longer is 12 to 18 months, such as Stanford University, and they cannot graduate after more than three years. The longest academic system of statistics major is no more than 2 years.
American graduate students study architecture: like statistics, the shortest one year and the longest two years, but the curriculum of each school is different. For example, the architecture major at the University of Pennsylvania is usually one year, but it may be three and a half years. American graduate students study law: most LLM majors have a one-year academic system, and very few have a two-year academic system.
The following are some materials that American graduate students need to prepare for studying abroad.
1. Proof of reading in Chinese and English (reading in senior year);
2. Chinese and English diplomas and degree certificates;
3. Chinese and English university transcripts (the higher the score, the better you can apply for a good school);
4. TOEFL, IELTS, GRE, GMAT scores;
5. Letter of recommendation;
6. Personal statement or article;
7. resume