中国高校研究生教育规模效益的实证研究 ─ 基于教育部直属72所高校统计数据的分析

Scale Economy of Postgraduate Education in China ─ A Survey of 72 MOE─administrated Universities and Colleges

本文根据教部直属72所院校横断面数据，对研究生规模与成本进行线性拟合，证实我国部属院校研究生教育存在规模经济，并估算了适度规模，博士生 1000人左右，硕士生 4000人左右。

This study examines the degree of economics of scale in the provision of postgraduate education in China， using linear fitting to the statistical data of 72 universities and colleges administrated by Ministry of Education of China. The study estimates that the moderate scale of postgraduate provision per institution is of about 1，000 doctoral students and about 4，000 master’s students.