Comparative Study On Training Mode Of Professional Degree Graduate In China And U.S.

With rapidly development of economy and society, social put new diversification requirements on type of high level talents. Professional degree education has been recognized constantly, shows a strong momentum of social needs and development gradually, and has become a way of training high-level, practical talents. The United States is the first nation in the world to carry out the graduate education of professional degree. During its nearly a century's course of development, it has cultivated a large number of high-level of application talents with professional training, and accumulated abundant experience in its management and practice. As an old saying goes, stones from other hills may serve to polish jade. At the critical develop period of our own nation's graduate education of professional degree, it has great theoretical and practical significance to study from the United States'training mode.This paper has studied the training mode of professional degree. Based on the theories of systematic science, higher education management, and human capital, the use of systems analysis and literature research, systematic analyses the training mode of professional degree. To extract the major components of its Elements: training objectives, training process, support conditions, external collaboration and quality assurance, establishing a conceptual empirical framework of training model on the relationship between them.On this basis, by using the example of representative of master of architecture, in the sample of top 12 universities that had the best graduate education of architecture in 2009, and the use of questionnaires, statistics and structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis methods, theoretical models and assumptions were tested and modified, and supplemented by specific cases. Similarly to master of architecture, for example, from three levels of the macro (society), the meso (university), the micro (professional), studied professional degree's training objectives, training process, support conditions, external collaboration and quality assurance in U.S., and summarized its characteristics. Finally, it compares the elements of training mode of professional degree in China and U.S., and puts forward the corresponding countermeasures.The results show that: first, training mode of professional degree is an organic whole by interrelated, interaction and mutual restriction of training objectives, training process, support conditions, external collaboration, and quality assurance; second, a strict training process, good support conditions, solid external collaboration and impeccable quality assurance have a significant positive effect on the training objectives; Impeccable quality assurance has a significant positive effect on the training process, support conditions and external collaboration; Good support conditions, and solid external collaboration have a significant positive effect on the training process; Third, the professional degree in U.S. has characteristic of clear training objectives, specification training process, good support conditions, activity external collaboration and efficient quality assurance.This paper builds a conceptual model and analytical framework about training mode of professional degree, and supplements the theory on the development of professional degree. Using chinese universities as a sample for the empirical research, it's not only makes up for the domestic shortage of empirical research in related fields, but also developments these local theories. The main conclusions can provide a reference for Chinese professional degree's rapidly and scientific development.