According to a report by the online education portal EOL, while well-known universities have seen slight increases or even drops in applicants this year, less famous ones have witnessed big jumps in test-takers, showing that more students are willing to settle for less famous universities to avoid fierce exam competition.
Applicants to Yunnan Minzu University jumped by 55 percent to 9,486 this year and Jiangxi Agricultural University also witnessed an increase of around 40 percent. Meanwhile, Nankai University in Tianjin and Beijing Forestry University saw slight decreases in test-takers.
The report also found that around 55 percent of those surveyed chose to pursue postgraduate studies due to the difficulty in finding employment.
When asked what factors influence the choice of university, almost 60 percent of respondents said they care about whether the university has high entrance scores, and 41 percent said they pay the most attention to how many students the school plans to accept. Meanwhile, around 56 percent said they care about the strength of the university and 35 percent said the ranking of the major matters.
According to the report, the student mentality has changed from a desire to get into a good university for postgraduate studies to a feeling that getting into any university is fine.
专家指出,造成这种现象的原因有以下几个方面:一是高等教育普及化,导致的“学历贬值”;二是社会对人才评价与筛选的门槛不断提高;三是考研竞争加剧,让一些人的核心关切变为解决考上的问题,而不是好不好的问题。
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