Empirical Study on Students' Career Consciousness in Professional Graduate School in China

:Focusing on the disparity by student questionnaire survey

Abstract

　　The professional graduate schools are categorized as "full-time" ones and "part-time" ones in China. During the period of high-economic growth in China, accompanying popularization of higher education and difficulty of finding jobs after graduation, the most remarkable reform is that professional graduate schools started recruiting graduates after a series of reforms of higher education.
　　However, with the diversification of opportunities for university graduates advancement, it became a big problem. Previous studies paid little attention on uncovering the related reasons to this problem either through verifying students' motivation by quantitative surveys or through investigating influence factors of students in full-time professional graduate school.
　　To fill this gap, firstly this study clarifies the reasons for students going to full-time graduate school by quantitative surveys Which is then followed by the explanation of data and analysis methodology. Finally, the results regarding the relationships between entrance motivation and influencing factors are explained and discussed.