Multiple universities have reduced their enrollment and suspended the recruitment of students and masters, with specialized and master students gradually becoming the main force in enrollment

2023-08-30

In addition to extending the training period, it is also necessary to optimize the teaching staff, training mode, process management, and process evaluation of the professional master's program, so that the professional master's program can truly connect with the industry and cultivate high-quality talents needed by society. In recent years, it has been very common for academic master's or master's programs to be reduced or suspended. Many majors have reduced the number of students enrolled in unified master's programs, and even only accept promotion or direct doctoral admissions. At the same time, the enrollment proportion of professional master's or master's programs is constantly expanding, gradually becoming the main force in the enrollment of master's and graduate students. Recently, the news that multiple schools have suspended the recruitment of academic master's degrees has sparked heated discussions. Recently, several universities, including the School of Economics and Management at Southwest University, the University of Science and Technology of China, Northwest University of Technology, and Northeast Forestry University, have announced that they will no longer admit academic master's degree students in certain majors. These majors cover multiple disciplines such as engineering, management, and agriculture. The "Development Plan for Professional Degree Graduate Education (2020-2025)" issued by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education proposes that by 2025, with a focus on major national strategies, key fields, and major social needs, a number of master's and doctoral degree categories will be added, and the enrollment scale of master's degree graduate students will be expanded to about two-thirds of the total enrollment scale of master's degree students, And significantly increase the enrollment of doctoral degree graduate students. In September 2022, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education mentioned at a press conference that the enrollment rate of professional master's degree students in China has exceeded 60%. According to statistics from the China Graduate Enrollment Information Network, a total of 4.74 million candidates nationwide registered for the preliminary examination of the National Master's Graduate Enrollment Examination held at the end of 2022, with over 60% of them applying for specialized and master's degrees. Chang Dong (pseudonym), who works at a postgraduate entrance examination tutoring institution in Changping District, Beijing, combined his observations of past candidates and stated that the "trade-off" between academic and professional master's programs is not only a result of policy requirements, but also an important factor in driving the proportion of professional master's enrollment. A considerable proportion of candidates want to pursue a master's degree, and their motivation is employment oriented, that is, to improve their competitiveness in the job market by obtaining a master's degree, rather than engaging in academic research. For them, specialized master's programs with shorter academic programs, more practical teaching content, and lower exam difficulty are more ideal choices compared to master's programs, "said Chang Dong. Chu Chaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that the expansion of enrollment for specialized and master's programs reflects social needs. Advanced talents are urgently needed in various professional fields, and theoretical research no longer requires the use of "crowd tactics" to stack up. In the process of expanding graduate enrollment, this demand is reflected in the reduction of enrollment for master's programs and the expansion of specialized master's programs. Although the enrollment scale of specialized and master's programs is constantly expanding, there are still many problems in the cultivation of specialized and master's programs. In society, there are often different evaluations and expectations for professional and master's programs, just like in the gap between 'general education' and 'vocational education', where the public still places greater emphasis on general education. This problem still requires efforts from all parties to solve it together, "said Chu Chaohui. Chang Dong stated that currently, there is no standardized and consensus on the cultivation of professional and master's students in various universities and majors. for example

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Source:Science and Technology Daily

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