Exploring and Improving the Quality of Master's Degree Students in Local Universities

Abstract

In recent years, influenced by the surge in the number of master's degree applicants and the new crown epidemic, the scale of graduate student admissions has maintained a relatively stable growth trend. While promoting the development of postgraduate education in China, the expansion of graduate students has also made universities face the challenge of declining quality of student sources. Therefore, this paper takes the total admission data of master's degree students from 2018 to 2022 of university A as the research sample, and analyzes the quality condition of student source of university A by analyzing the application ratio, overall admission, source of candidates and other basic conditions. It is found that: firstly, the admission ratio of university A is higher than the overall national admission ratio and reaches 5.63 in 2022. The proportion of admitted candidates of first-volunteer shows a wavy upward trend, while the proportion of admitted candidates of transfer is generally decreasing and shows a wavy downward trend. Secondly, the proportion of graduated students of double first-class construction universities among admitted candidates is relatively small, and the admitted candidates of A universities are mainly dominated by candidates of the first and second batches of undergraduates. Meanwhile,the percentage of admitted candidates of management and economics-related majors reached 70%. Thirdly, the analysis of the basic situation of admitted candidates found that the proportion of our students in the total admissions varied between 25% and 30%, which was relatively large. The proportion of admitted candidates from previous years is much higher than the proportion of admitted freshmen, with the proportion varying between 50% and 60%. The proportion of admitted candidates in the province is generally decreasing, but still occupies 70% of the total. In this paper, we analyze the situation related to the student source of college A, gain an in-depth understanding of its student source quality situation, and propose a path to improve the student source quality, which has important practical significance for college A to improve the student source quality structure and alleviate the continuous decline of student source quality.