Introduction

This book is the first teaching book to introduce graduate education. It highlights the feature of the combination of theory and practice, elaborates the basic concepts, characteristics, main content of graduate education, the history of graduate education development, the differences between graduate education and undergraduate education, the relationship between graduate education and society. It describes the main contents of graduate education such as Graduate Admissions, Graduate Cultivation, Graduate Education Management, Graduate Education Evaluation, Academic Degrees System and Conferring of Degrees, Disciplines Construction, and Graduate Education Research Methods, etc. It introduces the general information about international graduate education and the development of graduate education in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and other countries.

This book is a teaching book for the core curriculum of“graduate pedagogy”. It can also be used as a reference book for administrators, researchers and teachers who are working in the fields of graduate education.