China News Service, Beijing, November 24 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) The 2023 National Postgraduate Admissions Examination will be held from December 24 to 26, and there is still one month left for candidates.
According to the information released by many colleges and universities and application sites, there will be new trends in the number of applicants, schools and majors for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023.
Data map: Candidates show the health code to the staff.
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Individual growth over 60%
The number of applicants for many colleges and test centers hit a new high
Recently, with the completion of the online confirmation of registration for the 2023 National Postgraduate Admissions Examination, many colleges and universities and examination centers in various places have successively announced the number of applicants for this year.
A reporter from Chinanews.com noticed that many colleges and universities and application sites mentioned that the number of applicants "hit a record high."
Such as Beijing Forestry University, Yunnan University for Nationalities, Hainan Medical College, Xiangtan University, etc.
Among them, the number of online applicants from Beijing Forestry University reached 9,699, an increase of 8.8% over the number of actual examinations last year.
The number of applicants for Yunnan University for Nationalities is 9,486, an increase of 3,385 compared to 2022.
The number of applicants for the first choice of Hainan Medical College was 3,254, an increase of 900 compared with last year.
The number of applicants for the Law Department of Xiangtan University totaled 3,076, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%.
Judging from the current published information, the number of applicants for many colleges and universities has increased by 10% to 40%. For example, the number of applicants for Jiangxi Agricultural University has increased by 39.52%, the number of applicants for Yan’an University has increased by 33%, and the number of applicants for Civil Aviation University of China has increased by 13%. .
Among them, the number of applicants for Guilin Medical College increased significantly, with a total of 1,909 candidates who volunteered to apply for the examination, a year-on-year increase of 66.3%.
Many colleges and universities have over 10,000 applicants, such as Nankai University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Technology, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Xi'an University of Technology, etc.
Among them, there are more than 13,000 applicants from Beijing University of Science and Technology, more than 10,000 applicants from Chongqing University of Technology, 15,037 applicants from Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and 13,964 applicants from Xi'an University of Technology, all of which have increased compared with last year.
Nankai University has a total of 17,263 confirmed applicants, a slight drop from last year's 18,154.
Data map: Many postgraduate students are reviewing and preparing for the exam in the self-study room of the Nanchang University Library.
Photo by Liu Lixin
Master degree is popular among candidates
The popularity of "Double-Africa" colleges and universities continues to rise
According to the "2022 National Graduate Admissions Survey Report" released by China Education Online, the growth rate of postgraduate applications for "double first-class" colleges and universities in 2022 will slow down.
Judging from the registration situation of the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023, this trend is still continuing.
Many colleges and universities with an increase of more than 30% in the number of applicants are "double non" colleges, such as Yunnan University for Nationalities, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Hainan Medical College, etc.
Recently, "reverse postgraduate entrance examination" has become a popular vocabulary.
The above-mentioned report also mentioned that the number of postgraduate students has increased significantly.
From 158,000 in 2011 to 602,000 in 2020, the number of students enrolled in postgraduate programs has nearly quadrupled.
Since 2017, the number of students enrolled in master’s programs has surpassed that of master’s programs for the first time, and has continued to grow rapidly.
Judging from various data, in the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023, the master's degree is still very popular among candidates.
For example, Nankai University has 6,855 candidates for academic degree masters and 10,408 candidates for professional masters.
According to media reports, among the applicants for Northwest University of Political Science and Law, 11,155 had professional degrees, accounting for 74.2%.
28% of Yan'an University applied for a master's degree, and 72% of them applied for a master's degree.
In addition, in addition to fresh graduates, former college students will also become an important part of the 2023 postgraduate entrance examination.
According to the Education Bureau of Handan City, Hebei Province, as of November 5, a total of 22,365 graduate students have been confirmed in Handan City, of which 5,936 people have been confirmed by colleges and universities in Handan City. The main force of the exam.
Data map: A postgraduate entrance examination student is reviewing and preparing for the exam in the self-study room of the Nanchang University Library.
Photo by Liu Lixin
Expert Interpretation: New Trends Show Changes in Social Needs
The postgraduate entrance examination continues to heat up, the enthusiasm for applying for "double non" colleges and universities is rising, and the master's degree surpasses that of the master's degree. These new trends in the postgraduate entrance examination have attracted the attention of the outside world.
According to Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, these trends actually show changes in external social needs, the employment situation is more severe, and college students who take the postgraduate entrance examination have also begun to extend downward. It may be more because of the need to solve the employment problem and go to the postgraduate entrance examination.
The number of candidates in this part has increased and the urgency has increased, thus presenting this representation.
As for the reasons for the rapid growth in the number of applicants for "Double Non" colleges and the slowdown in the growth rate of "Double First-Class" colleges, Chu Zhaohui believes that it has something to do with the ratio of return on investment.
"Double-first-class" colleges and universities are under great competition for postgraduate entrance examinations, and the ratio of investment and return for students without sufficient strength is relatively low. On the contrary, the ratio of investment and return for them in "double-non-class" colleges and universities has increased significantly, so this change has occurred.
Some commentators pointed out that this change shows that some candidates tend to be rational.
On the whole, they have gradually lowered their goals for postgraduate entrance examinations, taking "going ashore" as their first goal, and no longer blindly pursue going to prestigious schools.
In addition, why is the master degree getting hotter and hotter?
Chu Zhaohui told a reporter from Chinanews.com that, on the one hand, it is the policy orientation at the national level. In recent years, the enrollment scale of masters and masters has continued to expand.
On the other hand, in actual employment, the training mode of master’s degree is more in line with the employment needs of many employers for students, and the opportunities will be wider.
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