Beijing had the most of postgraduate students in higher education institutions in 2019, accounting for over 15 percent of the country's total with 639,666, according to data recently released from the Ministry of Education.

The campus of Hunan University attracts many tourists on March 30, 2019. [Photo/Sipa]

A teacher and his student sign a board at the graduation ceremony of Qingdao University of Science and Technology in Shandong province on June 15, 2016. [Photo/Sipa]

Golden ginkgo leaves attract many tourists at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Sichuan province on Dec 3, 2017. [Photo/Sipa]

Tourists enjoy cherry blossoms at South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on Feb 11, 2019. [Photo/Sipa]

University football players at a match in Xi'an, Shaanxi province on June 3, 2017. [Photo/Sipa]

Students study at the library of Shenyang Agricultural University in Liaoning province on Nov 16, 2019. [Photo/Sipa]

Job seekers at a job fair held at Jianghan University in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on June 1, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

Students at Fudan University sit on the lawn on April 28, 2017. [Photo/Sipa]

Students look at employment information at a job fair in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, on Nov 17, 2019. [Photo/Sipa]

Students queuing outside a building wait to take postgraduate entrance exams in Beijing, on Dec 21, 2019. [Photo/Sipa]