1, and the culture objectives are different.

Professional degree master: Professional degree master pays attention to the close combination of academic and professional, and pays attention to cultivating high-level talents with obvious professional background. Graduates with professional degrees can work as engineers, doctors, teachers, lawyers and accountants.

Academic master: Academic master is set up according to different professional disciplines, emphasizing theory and research, and mainly cultivating university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions.

2. Different teaching methods

Master's degree: the teaching method of master's degree is flexible, which is mainly suitable for on-the-job people to apply. Its teaching methods include on-the-job and off-job. On-the-job mode is weekend class and concentrated class, and off-job mode is full-time.

Master's degree: Master's degree is full-time study, that is, candidates need to take a break after obtaining the admission qualification, and attend classes mainly on working days from Monday to Friday.

3. Different application conditions.

Master of professional degree: Some majors have the same requirements as academic masters.

However, majors such as business administration, public administration, engineering management, tourism management, project management in master of engineering, education management in master of education, and competition organization in master of physical education require at least 5 years of college graduation, or at least 3 years of undergraduate graduation, or at least 2 years of master's/doctoral degree before they can apply for the exam.

Master's degree: general junior college, bachelor's degree or above can apply for the exam. Except for junior college, which requires graduation for at least 2 years, bachelor's degree or above has no requirement for graduation period, that is, both current and previous students can apply for the exam.

4. The enrollment majors are different.

Master: The enrollment majors are relatively limited, including finance, applied psychology, stomatology, applied statistics, translation, public health, taxation, journalism and communication, nursing, international business, publishing, pharmacy, insurance, cultural relics and museums, traditional Chinese medicine, asset evaluation, architecture, military affairs, auditing, engineering, business administration, law and urban planning.

As well as public management, social work, agricultural extension, accounting, police, veterinary medicine, tourism management, education, landscape architecture, library and information, sports, forestry, engineering management, Chinese international education, clinical medicine, art, Chinese medicine and other 40 majors.

Master's degree: The enrollment majors include philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, military science, management, art, 13 and its first-class disciplines and two disciplines, covering all professional directions.

5. Different academic systems have different tuition fees.

Master: The length of master's degree varies according to the arrangement of colleges and universities. Generally, it ranges from 1-3 years, and the tuition fee ranges from 20,000 to 30,000 to several hundred thousand.

Master's degree: The master's degree system is generally 3 years, and students need to study according to the curriculum of colleges and universities. The course tuition fee is generally around 10,000.