The Ministry of Education stated that it has trained more than 11 million graduate students, and the average monthly minimum salary for graduate school is 13,218 yuan.

In the middle of this month, the Ministry of Education held a symposium to promote the reform of postgraduate education and teaching in the new era in Shanghai. Data released at the meeting stated that,my country has trained more than 11 million graduate students! Also according to data from the Ministry of Education, as of now, there are 117 first-level disciplines and 67 professional degree categories in our country, with more than 19,000 degree authorization points deployed across the country.

Entering the new era, more than 780 postgraduate training units across the country have sent more than 600,000 doctoral students and more than 6.7 million masters to the main battlefield of economic and social development.In 2022 alone, the number of postgraduate students will reach 3.65 million.

So does graduate school really give people better feedback? For example, salary.

According to the latest report from The Paper, after crawling 1.14 million recruitment posts, it was found that students who chose to continue their graduate studies in 2019,The average minimum monthly salary you can get now is 13,218 yuan, which is 441 yuan higher than the students who chose to work directly..

In recent years, the popularity of postgraduate studies has not diminished. The number of applicants for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023 reached a record high of 4.74 million. However, the number of applicants for the national master's degree examination in 2024 was 4.38 million, a decrease of 360,000 compared with 2024. The number of applicants for the postgraduate entrance examination has declined for the first time after eight consecutive years of increase.

So how should we view the employment difficulties of undergraduates and graduate students? In October this year, New Oriental founder Yu Minhong said during a live broadcast,It’s quite humbling for undergraduates and graduate students to work as couriers or drive Didi after graduation, because maybe junior high school students and high school students can do it.

However, he then said that if you do this job for a period of time, it is actually not bad. Understanding society, understanding people's hearts, and understanding people's hearts may actually help you start a business in the future or move to a higher level in life.