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.

From 20 17, the traditional on-the-job graduate students will be cancelled and part-time graduate students will be established on the basis of full-time graduate education? Part-time graduate students and full-time graduate students took the unified national entrance examination for graduate students at the end of 65438+February, delineated the same admission scores and implemented the same training graduation standards.

When I graduated, I also got a diploma of general higher education and a degree certificate. They just have different learning forms, and their academic qualifications are all general higher education (unified recruitment). Graduation certificate and degree certificate have the same legal status and the same effect.