In 2024, the number of applicants for postgraduate entrance examination was 4.38 million.

The 2024 national postgraduate entrance examination will be held from February 23 to 25, 2023, and the number of applicants for the 2024 national postgraduate entrance examination will be 4.38 million.

I. Introduction to Postgraduates

Postgraduate education is a kind of national education, which is generally implemented by ordinary universities with master's and doctoral degrees. After graduation, this model can also be called a graduate student, which means someone with a graduate degree.

Postgraduates are mainly divided into master's degree students and doctoral students, and according to the degree type, they are divided into academic graduate students and professional graduate students. The unified enrollment of graduate students in colleges and universities includes full-time graduate students and part-time graduate students, and they are enrolled through the national unified enrollment examination for master's and doctoral students, or through exemption from examinations and registration.

Second, the postgraduate entrance examination conditions

1, the physical health status meets the physical examination requirements stipulated by the state and the enrollment unit.

2, China residents, and good moral character, law-abiding.

3. Postgraduates must obtain the consent of the training unit before registering.

4. People with nationally recognized undergraduate degrees.

Graduate classification

First, distribution according to student status.

1, academic education: refers to taking the entrance examination organized by the state (including the exemption examination recommended by fresh graduates and the separate entrance examination organized by some colleges and universities approved by the Ministry of Education), and obtaining postgraduate status after being admitted. The forms of study are divided into full-time graduate students and part-time graduate students in general higher education.

2. Non-academic education: refers to graduate students who do not take the entrance examination organized by the state, do not have a student status, participate in postgraduate courses, complete the courses according to the teaching plan, apply for the national unified examination of master's foreign language level and comprehensive level of disciplines through the same academic ability, obtain the qualification for degree application, and obtain the degree certificate and completion certificate through the defense of master's thesis.

Second, according to the professional purpose

Degrees in China are divided into philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, art and so on 13. 13 is further subdivided into 88 first-level disciplines, 88 first-level disciplines are further subdivided into more than 300 two disciplines, and there are more than 760 two disciplines established by enrollment units.

Third, according to the form of learning

Graduate students in general higher education are divided into full-time graduate students and part-time graduate students according to different learning forms. The former refers to graduate students who study full-time in institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions, while the latter refers to graduate students who still undertake certain tasks in their original posts during their studies, all of whom are general higher education graduate students with unified enrollment qualifications.