Postgraduate education is a kind of national education, which is generally carried out by ordinary universities with master's and doctoral degrees. After graduation, a graduate student can also be called a graduate student, which means a person with a graduate education. 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. On-the-job graduate students before 20 17 refer to on-the-job graduate students, who are mainly enrolled through the 10 joint entrance examination and 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 postgraduate students will be abolished and part-time postgraduate students will be established on the basis of full-time postgraduate education. Part-time graduate students and full-time graduate students took the national unified postgraduate entrance examination (national unified examination) 12.

Draw the same admission scores, implement the same training graduation standards, and obtain the same general higher education diploma and degree certificate when graduating. They just have different learning forms, and their academic qualifications are all general higher education (unified recruitment). Their academic certificates and degree certificates have the same legal status and the same effect.

Special instructions for postgraduate examination:

1, the examination time of each subject is generally 3 hours; The longest examination time for special subjects such as architectural design shall not exceed 6 hours.

2. The initial test method is written test.

3. Candidates are required to take the enrollment professional catalogue published by the enrollment unit in the current year as the standard and participate in the specific preliminary examination subjects of each major.

4. The appearance time of the preliminary examination paper shall not be earlier than 30 minutes before the end of the examination of each subject. The specific appearance time shall be stipulated by the provincial education entrance examination management institution. After handing in the papers, you may not enter the venue to continue the examination, nor may you stay or talk near the examination room.

5. Candidates' preliminary test results shall be notified by the admissions unit where the candidates apply.

6. See the admission ticket for the examination time, examination subjects and related requirements.