Abstract: Postgraduate education bears the historical mission of cultivating high-level talents. The construction of postgraduate education governance system has become an important issue in the reform and development of postgraduate education. With the help of John Kingdons multiple streams theory, this paper puts forward an analysis model of postgraduate education governance to understand the policy agenda setting, and discusses the development dilemma of postgraduate from the three sources of problem stream, policy stream and political stream. The study finds that the initial conditions of the focus event, the power contradiction of the governance subject and the limited role of the policy community are the obstacles to the opening of the policy window. In order to further improve the modernization level of postgraduate education governance in the new era, the government should pay attention to the problem stream and constantly improve the ability of postgraduate education governance; colleges and universities should integrate political stream and actively explore the mode of postgraduate education governance; supervisors should participate in the policy stream and put forward measures to improve the governance of postgraduate education.

Key words: postgraduate education governance, multiple streams theory, policy window, development dilemma