The difference is the environment: a professional master's degree requires students to study in various departments of the hospital during the three years of study. The academic master's degree spends most of the time in the laboratory, but at least half a year of clinical study. Different directions: professional master's degree, future direction is to be a doctor who has direct contact with patients. As for the academic master's degree, the main training direction is to engage in research and develop in the direction of medical scientists.

The purpose of the professional master's degree is to cultivate applied high-level professionals with a solid theoretical foundation and adapted to the actual work needs of specific industries or occupations. Professional degrees and academic degrees are at the same level, with different training specifications and obvious differences in training objectives.

Academic degrees are established by discipline, which are oriented by academic research, focusing on theory and research, and train university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions; while professional degrees are oriented by professional practice, focusing on professional practice and application , to cultivate high-level talents who have received formal and high-level training in professional and specialized skills.

Academic master's degrees generally refer to people with academic degrees, established according to disciplines. They are academic research-oriented, focusing on theory and research, and mainly train university teachers and researchers in scientific research institutions.

China’s academic degree programs are divided into 13 majors: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, military science, management, and art. The major categories are further divided into 88 first-level disciplines, and the 88 first-level disciplines are further subdivided into more than 300 second-level disciplines. There are also more than 760 second-level disciplines established by the enrollment units themselves.