Recently, the School of Information Science and Engineering of Northeastern University released a message, which publicized the list of 52 doctoral students who were going to be expelled from Northeastern University for exceeding the longest study period, which attracted the attention of many netizens.

It is worth noting that the earliest doctoral student admitted to this retirement list was in 2002, and he has been studying for 18 years. Until 2020, he still did not graduate. The last time he entered the list was in 2009. He also studied 1 1 year and didn't graduate. According to the regulations of Northeastern University on the academic system of doctoral students, the academic system of doctoral students is 3 years, including the longest semester.

Then it is not a special case of Northeastern University that doctoral students have not graduated after the longest school years. Other universities in China have similar problems. So, why are so many doctoral students unwilling to graduate?

The first is because of the existence of the doctoral education system. Most schools require doctoral students for three years. Compared with foreign doctoral students, the academic system in China is very short. With the development of society and the progress of the times, the academic requirements, quality requirements and graduation requirements for doctoral students have been gradually improved, but the academic system has not been extended, which has led to the extension of academic research and experimental time for some doctoral students, leading to the delay in graduation;

Secondly, doctoral students have high gold content and have very high requirements for graduation. Although colleges and universities have requirements on the length of doctoral education system, you can't meet the requirements of your tutor for doctoral graduation within the prescribed educational system, and you will also ask for an extension of graduation time. It can be said that students who can graduate from doctoral programs are also high-quality talents who have gone through hardships.

For doctoral students who can't graduate for a long time, it may be due to personal factors, school environment, tutor, subject direction and other reasons, but they haven't graduated for more than ten years, so retirement is very necessary. It also reminds the majority of doctoral students to speed up their study and graduate as soon as possible.