Discussion on the Implications of Expansion in Postgraduate Education

This paper explores the development of postgraduate education in China, including the overall situation of postgraduate education, the trend in enrollment expansion in professional degrees as well as in various academic fields; it also triggers the impact and discussion about the postgraduate enrollment expansion, such as over-education and credential inflation, as well as the concerns about the quality of education and talent cultivation and so forth. Although the expansion brings various problems, the challenges may also become new opportunities for higher education reform, this paper also provides some suggestions on the expansion of postgraduate education.