What degree is the doctor?

Doctoral students are graduate students, and doctoral students are graduate students studying for doctoral degrees, which is the highest level of postgraduate education.

Strictly speaking, a student who has not obtained a doctorate can only be called a doctoral student. Only those who get a doctorate are real doctors. Therefore, according to international practice, in formal occasions, only those who have obtained a doctorate can be called "doctors". This restriction can be waived in informal situations.

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At present, the scale of doctoral education in China is controlled, forming a ratio of 10: 1. In addition, in order to facilitate understanding, we can refer to the policy classification of full-set academic education in China: middle school students include junior high school students and high school students, college students include junior college students and undergraduates and graduate students, and graduate students include master students and doctoral students.

Doctoral students are referred to as doctoral students for short, and doctors in people's daily life refer to doctoral students. Doctoral students are the highest academic qualifications and degrees in China at present, and postdoctoral students are not students, but the names of staff. Although its name has the word doctor, it has nothing to do with students, but its essence is the identity of the staff.