number of degrees earned at all levels of higher education in the United States. The vast number of graduates from Chinese universities originates from the increasing enrollment in colleges and universities across the country. Of the 9.67 million Chinese graduates of 2022, around 4.72 million earned a bachelor's degree, whereas 4.95 million earned a more practically oriented short-cycle degree. On a graduate and postgraduate level, around 773,000 master's and doctor's degree students graduated from public colleges and universities in China in 2021.
In 2022, a record high of around 9.7 million students graduated from undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities in China. That number was more than double as high as the Number of graduates from public colleges and universities in China between 2012 and 2022 (in 1,000s)
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