Abstract:

Internship Practice is a most important fact distinguishing Master’s degree in professional education from academic education. Based on the data of the National Survey of Master’s degree in professional education, this paper explores the effect of the quality of internship practice on the competence of professional degree graduate students. It is found that the quality of professional internship practice has a positive and significant effect on the improvement of competence quality of master’s degree in professional education, but this effect is affected by the level of school-enterprise cooperation. The close connection between universities and graduate training bases, sufficient communication between internal and external supervisors, and integrated training within and outside universities will enhance the marginal effect of professional internship practice on the quality of individual competence; whereas the purely superficial or formalized requirements of professional internship practice do not have a significant effect on the enhancement of the quality of the competence of graduate students in professional degree education. Therefore, in order to improve the cultivation quality of professional degree graduate students and cultivate their human capital different from academic graduate students, it is necessary to pay special attention to the integration of industry and education and university-enterprise cooperation to ensure the quality of professional internship practice of professional degree graduate students, which in turn effectively improves the enhancement of their competence quality.It should take different approaches depending on disciplinary differences.

Key words: master students in professional degree education, quality of internship practice, university-enterprise cooperation, competence quality; disciplinary differences