Graduate Education International Competitiveness Evaluation System And Enhance The Way Research

Since 1998, China's postgraduates' enrollment has been largely expanded. With postgraduate education entering the stage of spanning development, more and more disputes concerning the quantity and quality of the postgraduate education are triggered out. With China's entering WTO in 2001, the success of successive exhibitions of international higher education and the increasingly drastic "going abroad" tide, people began to worry about the loss of the origin of excellent postgraduates and the decrease of international competitiveness of China's education. Facing the fast development of economic globalization, efforts must be made to accelerate the development of postgraduate education, increase its International competitiveness and promote the sustaining development in an environment full of fierce competition.Under these circumstances, the dissertation reviewed the relevant research about international postgraduate education competitiveness and defined it as, a kind of ability possessed by one university to attract, grasp, own, control and transfer those educational resources during the process of competing with others in the world, as well as a kind of power to influence the teaching and research levels, the quality and quantity of talents with respect to the development of social politics, economy, technology and culture. As a result, this paper builds up a set of International competitiveness evaluation index system with four primary guidelines: educational foundation, educational investment, educational resources transition, educational output, including ten second-class indexes, fifty-eight third-class indexes. According to this system, seven universities that affiliated to Education Department including Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University were chosen as evaluating objects. Through evaluating, we found that although ourcountry's research universities had made great progress on the aspects of education investment, discipline development, teaching and research level and the numbers of talents, the ability of attracting and contesting education resources (i.e. education investment and the origins of students) of these universities were still at a low level compared to the first-class universities in the world. There is still a long distance between China and those universities in research and research output (i.e. high level research outcomes and patents). Particularly on the quality of talents, we're in short of some top and world famous scientists and outstanding people in the fields of politics, economy and culture.In the end, the dissertation points out the approaches to promote the international competitiveness of postgraduate education. First, strengthening the force of exploring the experiences from the world-class universities and disciplines. Second, accelerating the internationalization of our postgraduate education. Third, reinforcing the education innovation and increasing the overall training quality. Fourth, emphasizing the institutional construction to ensure the promotion of international competitiveness of postgraduate education.