Research on the Goal of Doctoral Education in China Based on the Development History of Doctoral Education in the West

摘要

China's doctoral education model has experienced from the education model of studying the UK, US and German to the model of copying the Soviet Union's doctoral education. Till now, China's doctoral education scale has surpassed the United States to become the world's top doctoral education country. However, the discussion on the goal of doctoral education across the world has never stopped. This paper reviews the history of western doctoral education in the middle ages and modern times, and concludes that the goal of doctoral education is to train future researchers, hoping to make some theoretical contributions to the perfection of China's doctoral education system and the implementation of doctoral education goals in the future.