Is there a graduate student who has been "waiting for a long time" for more than ten years without graduating? "Exceeded Master's Degree" is difficult to obtain a diploma
Graduate students have been "waiting for a long time" for more than ten years, but they have not been able to graduate smoothly. Colleges and universities have set off a "removal tide", and some even dismissed more than 100 people at one time... In recent years, the phenomenon of "excessive master's and doctoral degrees" in colleges and universities has occurred from time to time. The problems such as the crowding out of teaching resources in colleges and universities and the rise in management costs have caused social discussions.
Master and doctoral students "waiting for a long time" have become "oil bottles" in colleges and universities
In December 2021, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics automatically dropped out of 113 graduate students who had exceeded the longest study period.
This is not the first time that colleges and universities have attracted social attention due to the dismissal of "overdue masters and doctorates".
In November 2021, the Graduate School of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law plans to retire 20 graduate students, including 14 doctoral students.
In 2020, nearly 20 universities including Sichuan University, Jilin University, and Beijing Jiaotong University have successively announced the list of more than 1,300 graduate students who are planning to drop out. These students have studied at school for 8 to 14 years.
The Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education issued the "Several Opinions on Further Strictly Regulating the Quality Management of Degrees and Graduate Education" in October 2020, proposing that "graduate students who are not suitable for continuing to study for a degree should be diverted and withdrawn in accordance with the training plan as soon as possible, and students should be good students. Divide out of service work, and strictly regulate the management of various postgraduate student status.”
Banyuetan reporters investigated and learned that the phenomenon of "extended master's and doctoral programs" is crowding out teaching resources in colleges and universities.
A doctoral student who graduated from a famous school told Banyuetan that the postgraduate tutors of first-class disciplines usually recruit 2 doctors and 3 masters every year. Even if all students graduate normally, there will be one tutor who will mentor 15 at the same time during the training process. even more students.
Under normal circumstances, the mentor's energy and laboratory resources are barely sufficient.
If there is a "super-long standby" for masters and doctors, the teaching resources of colleges and universities will only be more stressed.
The person in charge of the graduate school of a university in the central region told the reporter Banyuetan that the school needs to go through the procedures for extending the student status every year for "overstayed master's and doctoral programs". .
At the same time, the relevant person in charge of the graduate schools of many universities said that the Ministry of Education will evaluate the teaching quality and scientific research level of colleges and universities according to the graduation rate of graduate students, and make corresponding adjustments in the enrollment indicators.
In this way, colleges and universities can only cancel the "overdue master's and doctoral degree".
Stick to the bottom line and improve the quality of postgraduate training
Banyuetan reporter learned that it is difficult for students to graduate with "wide entry" and "strict exit", which is an important incentive for the frequent occurrence of "excessive master's and doctoral programs".
In the past, majors such as MBA and EMBA were not included in the postgraduate unified examination. The admission threshold of part-time postgraduates in these majors was generally lower than that of full-time postgraduates, and the tuition fees were generally higher or even twice as high as that of full-time postgraduates.
The two characteristics of easy enrollment and high fees made some colleges and universities once keen to recruit such graduate students.
A relevant person in charge of a university in central China said that a certain school dismissed hundreds of overdue graduate students at one time, and more than half of them were from MBA colleges.
Most of these students are on-the-job postgraduates recruited before the 2016 MBA unified examination and 2017 EMBA unified examination. They have exceeded the school's maximum study period of "5 years for master's students and 6 years for doctoral students", which belongs to the period of "wide entry". historical issues.
These on-the-job postgraduates are often difficult to graduate successfully under the environment of "strict exit" that continuously improves the quality of postgraduate education due to factors such as weak academic ability and insufficient energy allocation.
A former MBA student said that their energy is mainly occupied by family and work, and it is not easy to graduate.
But more than a paper degree certificate, everyone cares more about the connections brought by graduate school.
"A degree is a reflection of the country's credibility. Resolutely dismissing over-delayed graduate students is the bottom line that colleges and universities should adhere to." Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that from the perspective of talent training rules, colleges and universities set a relatively loose maximum study period, usually 4-6 years for master students and 6-8 years for doctoral students.
If the graduate students fail to meet the predetermined training requirements within this period, it indicates that they lack teaching plasticity and corresponding learning ability.
The interviewed experts suggested that we should continuously raise the entry threshold for postgraduate enrollment, optimize the student source structure; strengthen process management, and establish a process monitoring system for postgraduate education; further promote the pattern and deep-level reform of postgraduate education.
Banyue Talk Reporter: Hu Jinwu, Yuan Huijing