1. Full-time master
Domestic full-time master can apply for overseas doctor, all master's students with master's diploma and degree certificate can apply for overseas doctor.
The core of the doctoral application lies in the demonstration and proof of scientific research ability. The university will evaluate your scientific research ability from your application conditions and personal background, so the applicant must have enough research experience and academic background.
For full-time masters, you can start preparing for the application in the first semester of the third year and reserve enough time for background improvement and preparation of the application materials.
2. Part-time master
In other words, as long as a student's undergraduate and master's certificates are issued by regular universities, they can be used to apply for overseas doctoral programs, and the school will not accept them because they are not full masters.
Many people attribute the offer they did not get to incomplete degrees, in fact, more or less a bit of personal deviation. As long as your academic ability is very outstanding, there are still many colleges can apply successfully.
Suggestion: Part-time master's degree is not as complete as the full-time master's degree, so make good use of the limited time to prepare the application materials in advance. In addition, part-time master's degree in academic research training is insufficient, academic ability and scientific research level may be relatively poor, so it is very likely to be at a disadvantage when applying for the doctoral degree. If you know that you want to study for a doctorate in the future, you must improve your scientific research ability and participate in more scientific research projects.
3. Academic master's degree
Academic master's education is mainly to train teaching and research talents, and the types of degrees awarded are mainly academic degrees. Academic masters emphasize the study of basic theories and have been trained in systematic study and research methods, so they have the ability and quality to engage in scientific research and innovation.
Because the doctoral stage is based on scientific research, doctoral students need to conduct in-depth academic research and publish certain papers in journals. Overseas universities pay more attention to students' scientific research ability, and tutors prefer academic masters.
4. Professional master
Professional masters pay more attention to technical practice, pay attention to the combination of theory and practice, and are in a weak position in terms of scientific research experience and paper publication. Tutors prefer academic masters over professional masters. Although paper publication is never a mandatory requirement in doctoral applications, although it is not a mandatory requirement to assess applicants, the chances of application will be affected.
Suggestions: Professional master's students can improve from the university's internal research projects or summer research projects, and more papers.
5. Master's degree in both non-academic institutions
Double non-colleges generally refer to non-first-class construction universities and non-first-class discipline construction universities, that is, non-double first-class, also known as non-double. Specifically refers to those universities that are neither 985 nor 211. Although the doctoral application is a comprehensive consideration of students' background conditions, such as standardized scores, GPA, scientific research background, etc., some European and American universities do pay more attention to students' scientific research level and practical ability, but in the case of selective admission, strong institutional background conditions are also the key to your success.
Compared with the double first-class university master, double non-university master applying for overseas doctor, there are certain disadvantages. But that is not to say that there is no chance of success.
Advice: Many overseas colleges and universities can be said to be very unfriendly to dual-non-applicants, so we should understand the focus of school enrollment to carry out reasonable school selection, do not choose popular majors in popular schools. We can find a new way to start with standardized grades and scientific research projects, and improve standardized grades during the master's stage, publish more articles or papers, and improve our own scientific research background.
The basic process of applying for the Expo
Regardless of the type of master's degree, the requirements and materials for overseas doctoral applications are basically the same. If you want to apply successfully and get the offer, the difficulty is not small.
The procedures for applying for a PhD abroad can be broadly divided into the following steps:
Language test preparation: IELTS and TOEFL tests should be completed within 2 years before the application. If the academic burden is not heavy, you can prepare early
Determine the university and major: Choose the research direction according to my major and research direction at the postgraduate stage, combined with the scientific research experience or topics I have participated in. Try not to cross the major and avoid the popular major when choosing a major
Improvement of scientific research background: The publication of academic papers is the embodiment of their own scientific research and academic ability, you can try to improve from their own scientific research projects, summer research projects and other aspects
Production of paperwork
CV briefly describes your basic information, school achievements, award experience, etc. The focus should be on your research experience and academic achievements.
PS needs concise language, mainly to say that you are interested in scientific research, interested in scientific research, and the content should be reasonable and based on evidence.
RP In addition to showing their research, knowledge reserves and English writing ability, but also to show their own originality, writing content must be clear.
If you have a research field and research topic that you are interested in, it is recommended that you first contact the supervisor in the corresponding field according to your own demands, consider your own major or research direction at the postgraduate stage based on your own personal interests, and then choose the research direction to apply based on your own scientific research experience or research topics.
Set magnetic: Set magnetic to avoid the busy period of the tutor, set magnetic letter is not just a simple email, must bring the material application, will reflect their own scientific research results and scientific research potential. It is important to note that the same set of magnetic letters should not be set on the same school of different tutors.
Online application: Before online application, be sure to leave enough time to check their own preparation materials, each school online application materials and time are different, according to the chronological order.
Interview and get the offer: After online application, be sure to pay attention to the online application system and their own email system, the interview should be done in advance to avoid nervous interview.