Report on China’s Graduate Education Quality 2023

This book provides an overview of China’s graduate education quality in 2022 from various aspects and dimensions. It summarizes the overall development of China’s graduate education quality in 2022, analyzes comprehensive, objective, and multidimensional data related to the development of China’s graduate education, including provincial quality evaluation of graduate education, the analysis of graduate satisfaction survey, the evaluation for high-level graduate schools, and the views of international media on graduate education in China, and also highlights 10 major events influencing the quality of graduate education. It facilitates readers’ understanding of the quality of graduate education in China, provides the basis for decision-making for universities and government administrations, and enhances communication with international counterparts. It also serves as a valuable information source for academia in general.

The basis of English translation of this book, originally in Chinese, was facilitated by artificial intelligence. The content was later revised by Prof. LEl Kun who has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavor to refine the work stylistically.

Wang Zhanjun is the former Deputy Director of China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center, and the Deputy Director of the former Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education of China. Currently, he holds the position of Director-general of the Center for Graduate Education at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is the Ph.D. supervisor and professor at both Tsinghua University and Beijing Institute of Technology, and is also the chief expert at the National Natural Science Foundation.

For more than 30 years, Professor Wang has been engaged in the management, teaching, research and evaluation of higher education and graduate education. His main research interests include, but are not limited to, Higher Education Management and Evaluation, Education Development Strategy, and Management Information Systems. He has participated in the planning, developing, and organizing of many national academic degrees and graduate education evaluation projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China. He has also presided over more than 20 projects (completed or ongoing) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, and projects entrusted by the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He has published more than 180 academic papers and numerous books, such as The Theory and Method of Monitoring Evaluation in Higher Education (2017), The Graduate Education Development for 70 Years in China (2019), The Implementation of China Academic Degree System in 40 Years (2021), and Theory and Method of Academic Degrees and Postgraduate Education Evaluation (2012). One of his ongoing research projects is the Management Reform and Research Innovation of Postgraduate Education in the ’Internet Plus’ Era, which is one of the key programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Wang Zhanjun’s main part-time social positions include: Vice-chairman of the Association of Chinese Graduate Education, and Vice-chairman of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Graduate Education (in Chinese).