Graduate education can be divided into academic graduate students and professional degree graduate students according to different training objectives. The training goal of academic postgraduates is senior academic research-oriented professionals, while the training goal of professional degree postgraduates is applied senior professionals with solid theoretical foundation and meeting the actual needs of specific industries or occupations. Senior application-oriented professionals with strong ability to solve practical problems, can undertake professional technology or management work, and have good professional quality.
Starting from 20 10, the national postgraduate entrance examination English papers are divided into English (1) and English (2). English (2) is a unified examination subject with the nature of selection, which is mainly set up for universities and research institutes to recruit professional degree graduates who do not take English (1).