According to the "Leadership Message Board" of People's Daily Online, in response to netizens' complaints about Ningxia University's "substantial reduction in the number of professional master's enrollment places", the Graduate School of Ningxia University responded on January 4.
The above-mentioned netizens left a message saying that in the "Ningxia University 2024 National Master's Enrollment Regulations" announced by Ningxia University, the number of professional master's degrees has been greatly reduced, and the number of academic master's degrees has been expanded.
For example, the number of students in subject teaching (Chinese) has been reduced from 40 to 32, the number of students in subject teaching (mathematics) has been reduced from 30 to 15, the number of students in subject teaching (history) has been reduced from 18 to 7, the number of students in subject teaching (physics) has been reduced from 25 to 16, and the number of students in subject teaching (physical education) has been reduced from 9 to 1. "It can be seen that the number of professional master's degrees in 2024 has been significantly reduced and decreased compared with 2023, which is contrary to the national policy and the guidance of the Ministry of Education, and has also seriously disrupted our original plan to apply for professional master's degree students. ”
In this regard, the Graduate School of Ningxia University stated that according to the relevant content in the Notice of the Ministry of Education on Doing a Good Job in the Preparation of the Catalog of Graduate Enrollment Majors in 2024 (Teaching Department [2023] No. 11), all enrollment units will compile the catalog of graduate enrollment majors in their units in accordance with the spirit of the Notice of the Ministry of Education on Issuing the National Graduate Enrollment Plan for 2023 (Jiao Fa Han [2023] No. 67) and 95% of the various graduate enrollment plans determined in the document (rounded to the nearest whole number). The enrollment number announced by Ningxia University in the "Ningxia University 2024 National Master's Enrollment Regulations" is 95% of the actual enrollment in 2023, and the enrollment quota has not been reduced.
According to the Graduate School of Ningxia University, 72% of the total enrollment of professional degree master's students admitted to Ningxia University in 2023 has exceeded two-thirds, meeting the requirement of "expanding the enrollment scale of professional degree master's students to about two-thirds of the total enrollment scale of master's students by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan" mentioned in the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Further Promoting the Development of Academic Degree and Professional Degree Graduate Education".
At the same time, the Graduate School of Ningxia University said that the changes in the quotas of individual majors listed by the above netizens are the normal dynamic adjustment of the quotas of Ningxia University.
The number of post-graduate students will account for two-thirds of the scale of research and enrollment
On December 19, 2023, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Deepening the Development of Classification of Academic Degree and Professional Degree Graduate Education".
Ren Youqun, director of the Department of Degree Management and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education, said that the scale structure of the two types of graduate students will be optimized, focusing on major national strategies, key areas and major social needs, and further increasing the proportion of professional degree graduates, hoping that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the enrollment scale of professional degree master's students will be expanded to about two-thirds of the total enrollment of master's students, and the number of doctoral degree students will be greatly increased.
According to Science and Technology Daily, in recent years, it is very common for academic masters to reduce or stop enrolling. Many majors have reduced the number of master's degree programs in the unified admission, or even only accept push-exempt methods or direct doctoral admissions. At the same time, the enrollment ratio of professional masters, i.e., professional masters, has been expanding, and has gradually become the main force of master's student enrollment.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, believes that the expansion of professional and master's enrollment reflects social needs. There is an urgent need for high-level talents in various professional fields, and theoretical research no longer needs to be piled up with "crowd tactics". In the process of expanding the enrollment of graduate students, this demand is reflected in the reduction of master's degree enrollment and the "expansion" of professional master's degree.
At the same time, in the 2024 master's enrollment guidelines announced by many universities, 3-year professional and master's programs are also becoming a trend.
Chu Zhaohui said that in addition to extending the training time, in the future, it is necessary to optimize the faculty, training mode, process management and process evaluation of the master's degree, so that the training of the master's degree can be truly connected with the industry and cultivate high-quality talents needed by the society.
Regarding the phenomenon of "many colleges and universities officially announcing the extension of the master's degree system", the China Youth Review also issued an article saying: The extension of the school system should also be vigilant against the trend of "master's degree" in the training of professional masters, and at the same time eliminate the gap between the length of the academic system, it is also necessary to be more clear about the characteristics and advantages of professional and master's training, so that professional masters and masters can achieve differentiated training and complementary development.
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Source: China Youth Daily