The preliminary exam for the 2023 National Master’s Admissions Examination came to an end yesterday (26th). A total of 4.74 million people across the country applied for the exam, of which more than 60% were professional master’s applicants.

　　According to the "Professional Degree Graduate Education Development Plan (2020-2025)" issued by the Ministry of Education, by 2025, the enrollment scale of professional master's degree graduate students will expand to about two-thirds of the total enrollment of master's degree students. mainstream.

　　In order to improve the quality of training, in recent years, many colleges and universities have successively adjusted the postgraduate education system. For example, when Sichuan International Studies University enrolls graduate students in 2019, the postgraduate education system is 2 years. All adjusted to 3 years.

In Nanjing University’s full-time master’s program, there are currently only five majors with a 2-year academic system, and the remaining 3-year academic programs.

Dalian University of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Southeast University, Northwest Normal University and other colleges and universities have implemented a 3-year schooling system for professional degree postgraduates.

After the adjustment of the academic system, colleges and universities have also revised and demonstrated the corresponding training programs to strictly control the quality of training.

　　In recent years, my country's postgraduate education has been continuously strengthened in key disciplines.

According to statistics, the number of first-level doctoral programs in science, engineering, agriculture and medicine has increased from 1,944 in 2012 to 2,575 in 2021; in the "Double First-Class" construction, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine accounted for 78.5%.

Judging from the enrollment scale of graduate students in various disciplines in recent years, engineering is the discipline with the largest number of enrollments, followed by management; the top five disciplines with the largest number of enrollments are medicine, science, and education.

　　In September this year, the "Catalogue of Graduate Education Disciplines (2022)" was released, which strengthened the discipline support for the frontiers of science and technology and key areas, and newly established first-level disciplines such as intelligent science and technology, remote sensing science and technology, nanoscience and engineering or For interdisciplinary subjects, the new round of postgraduate enrollment and training to be launched in the second half of 2023 will be carried out according to the new catalog.

(CCTV news client)