Graduate Education in China
摘要
With rapid development over the past 20 years, the scaleScale and qualityQuality of Chinese graduate educationGraduate education have experienced unprecedented expansionExpansion. Recently, Chinese graduate educationGraduate education has demonstrated some new trends. In particular, there has been a strong emphasis on the training of science and engineering talents. Moreover, graduate-level professionalProfessional degree degreeDegreeprofessional degree education has played an increasingly important role in producing high-qualityQuality engineers. This chapter provides an overview of Chinese graduate education by reviewing the history and its enhancement in quantity and qualityQuality as compared to graduate educationGraduate education systemsEducation system in some leading countries. Using the Graduate EducationGraduate education Excellence Indictor, this chapter showcases the overall strengths and setbacks in the development of Chinese graduate educationGraduate education. Moreover, with the strong emphasis on the development of science and engineering, the chapter illustrates the recent trends of best practices concerning Chinese graduate educationGraduate education, describing in-depth stories as related to the unique features of graduate educationGraduate education in Chinese universities. In addition, an analysis of recent national policies on Chinese graduate educationGraduate education is also provided to illustrate the overall guidance and support from the Chinese government.