Will Postgraduate Enrollment Expansion Cause Degree Devaluation

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The 2021 National Postgraduate Entrance Examination will be launched this Saturday (December 26). Industry insiders predict that the number of applicants will increase significantly this time, reaching the highest level in the past years, due to the increased employment pressure caused by the COVID-19 epidemic and the obstacles to studying abroad. At the same time, on the basis of expanding the enrollment of 189000 people in 2020, the scale of master's degree students will be steadily expanded in 2021. In this context, will graduate education depreciate? What are the new ways to further study in the future? Does graduate employment have obvious advantages?

Executive Vice President of Graduate School of Beijing University of Technology

First, the scale of postgraduate enrollment expansion is within a controllable range. In recent years, there are more and more college graduates, and many former students who want to continue their studies have also joined the ranks of postgraduate entrance examination, which makes the number of candidates for master's degree continue to expand.

However, the COVID-19 epidemic has a great impact on the economy and society, and has brought great pressure on the employment of new graduates. At the same time, undergraduate graduates are blocked from going abroad for further study, which further increases the number of postgraduate students. At present, the proportion of enrollment expansion is within the controllable range. According to the requirements of the Ministry of Education, the annual postgraduate enrollment scale of each training unit should be declared in September of the previous year. The specific reasons for increasing the enrollment quota should also be stated. The Ministry of Education also has strict control over the area of public facilities such as the ratio of teachers to students, dormitory and canteen per student.

Generally, the enrollment plan applied by colleges and universities is higher than the actual enrollment quota. For example, in 2020, our school applied to increase the enrollment quota of 500 graduate students, and actually assigned 421. Although the actual increase in the number was larger than that in previous years, it still did not exceed the planned quota. The application for increasing the quota is calculated based on the situation that the school introduces 150 young talents from home and abroad every year, and has built more than 200000 square meters of teaching facilities, dormitories and student canteens in Liangxiang Campus.

Secondly, enrollment expansion meets the needs of national economic and social development. At present, the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day. High tech fields such as artificial intelligence, Internet+, integrated circuits, unmanned systems, high-end equipment, new generation information technology, advanced materials, biomedicine and so on urgently need rapid development, and a large number of outstanding professional and technical talents are urgently needed.

Therefore, colleges and universities must aim at the future development needs of the country and train high-level talents in advance. Undergraduate education focuses more on professional general education, while postgraduate education is a key stage to cultivate students' professional innovation ability. Therefore, the expansion of professional degree graduates is fully in line with the future development needs of the country.

Third, we should ensure the quality of talent training in the case of enrollment expansion. It is a common concern of students, parents and the society whether the expansion of postgraduate enrollment will cause a decline in the quality of training, and it is also an aspect that the government and schools attach importance to. The quality of postgraduate education is closely related to the quality of students, courses, scientific research, tutor guidance and dissertations. The number of examinees has increased significantly, and the quality of students will not have much impact.

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Graduate students experience devaluation, but the number of people who can make greater contributions to the country has increased, although not everyone who goes to graduate school can become a talent.

Don't talk about expanding enrollment, please. It makes others think that graduate students are good candidates. The enrollment of literature, history and philosophy has not expanded at all, and many schools have shrunk. Don't understate that the enrollment expansion is worthless

Don't talk about it. Let me pass the exam first, OK? I am willing to be devalued

Ah, continuing to expand enrollment cannot match the growth rate of postgraduate candidates

No, there are more graduate students in the United States. Is it difficult to find jobs? It is not difficult to attract talents from all over the world. To put it bluntly, the development level is not enough, not the devaluation of academic qualifications

The reform of undergraduate education is fundamental. The current undergraduate education has been seriously divorced from reality. After four years of undergraduate education, it is the same as any other kind of education. After leaving school, it is seriously divorced from the society. The ability to learn more knowledge is insufficient, and the experience of subject research experiments is insufficient. It is impossible to enter or even complete subject research for a long time. Undergraduate education is the top priority and the key node to enter the next stage.

The expansion of postgraduate enrollment should improve the overall quality, just as nine-year compulsory education has improved the quality of all citizens. It's hard to say for individuals. Unless the tutor team also expands, or one tutor brings more students, it will inevitably lead to the decline of individual quality

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