The postgraduate entrance examination is climbing, and the more difficult to go ashore

The cover of the 11th issue of "China Economic Weekly" in 2022

"China Economic Weekly" reporter Zhang Yan | Shanxi report

4.57 million people's postgraduate entrance examinations and 3 million people fell on the list. How difficult it is for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2022, it can be seen from these two groups.

"Because of bad employment, our major has always been the postgraduate department in the school. Many students have anchored the road to postgraduate entrance examination since the freshman. In previous years, our postgraduate entrance examination power was at least 40%. None of it. "The director of the ideological and political department of two colleges and universities in Shanxi Province told the reporter of the China Economic Weekly that this year they were more than 70 students' postgraduate entrance examinations and were successfully admitted. Only 13 were successfully admitted.

Public data shows that from the number of national graduate applicants in 2017, the number of applicants for graduate students broke the 2 million mark, reaching 3.77 million in 2021, and the number of postgraduate applicants in the past 5 years has been nearly a few years; It has doubled in the past 12 years.

At the same time, most of the "postgraduate provinces" have reached a record high in the year, and the number of postgraduates and the national proportion continues to rise.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, the scale of 2022 college graduates is expected to be 10.76 million, a year -on -year increase of 1.67 million, and the scale and growth rate of the increase are hit. With the increase in economic downlink pressure and the impact of the superimposed policy, the traditional absorption of the "big households" of graduates -education, real estate, and the Internet and other industries have undergone layoffs and reduction. This has become more and more growing in the postgraduate army.

In 2022, the National Master's Graduate Admissions Examination was held. At the test site of Nanjing Forestry University, candidates were waiting for admission.

Delaying employment through the postgraduate entrance examination can really increase the chance of employment in the future?

In recent years, with the continuous advancement of graduate education reform, the trend of shrinking the master, expanding colleges, and encouraging masterpieces and even direct blogs is gradually spreading in universities across the country. According to policy trends, high -level research talents in the future will mainly be mainly doctoral education, and master's degree training will be mainly applied by applied talents.

Under this trend, the postgraduate army further diverted. For most students who choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, further academic studies are no longer the main purpose of the postgraduate entrance examination. Especially for fresh graduates, study is undoubtedly the best channel for delaying employment. On the one hand, it can increase its competitiveness in the future employment market, and the other is to temporarily relieve the employment pressure facing now.

Fu Zhemin, who graduated from the software engineering major, is the lucky on the "ashore" this year's postgraduate entrance examination. Although it has not been admitted to Chongqing University with some differences, in such a fierce competition this year, it is also a good result to be adjusted to Shanxi University. Fu Zhemin told reporters that the major he has learned in the employment market is relatively popular. As long as you are not only aiming at large factories, even if you enter unknown Internet companies, the basic salary can reach about 10,000 yuan. But all of this must be based on students' own learning ability. If you only rely on undergraduate knowledge, it is difficult to find a suitable job in the employment market.

"Computers are a very detailed major. When you apply for job hunting, your job will require you to specifically in a certain aspect, such as front -end, testing, operation and maintenance, etc. The content of the teacher's lectures or textbooks is basic knowledge. If this major wants to have a good employment prospect, or you have a strong self -study ability and talent, or spend tens of thousands of yuan before employment to train for special training institutions, or you need to take the postgraduate entrance examination. "Fu Zhemin said that he said The career of my favorite is related to artificial intelligence and algorithms, and these contents are basically not involved in undergraduate learning. If you want to engage in related industries, the postgraduate entrance examination is a must.

Nevertheless, with the increasing expansion of the postgraduate army, the increasing employment competitiveness of graduate students and even doctoral qualifications is becoming increasingly limited. Zhang Qianqian, who is currently studying in a 985 college in Beijing, told reporters that although they have only graduated in one year, they have been convened in the department to have a meeting. The teachers in the department told them in advance that from the perspective of the employment situation this year, the employment situation next year is not optimistic. The teacher suggested that they plan early, don't wait to choose or test civil servants. It really doesn't work, it is a good way to continue reading the blog.

"In the past, the employment rate of our professional graduate students was about 90%, and only 50%of this year. Especially this year because of the epidemic, the civil servants' examinations in many provinces have been delayed, and it has also had a certain impact on everyone's employment." Zhang Qianqian said.

I resign from my career editing work, and I have to go ashore and study for three years

In the mighty postgraduate troops, there are many candidates in World War II, Three Worlds and even the Fourth War. Some people are to continue to study academically. Some people are to find a better way out, and some people are for ideals. They hope to solve their current confusion by continuing learning.

After receiving the graduate admission notice from Northeast University, the first thing Yan Xu (pseudonym) did was to submit an application for resignation to the unit leader. From the perspective of parents and colleagues, Yan Xu, who has already worked in a public institution in his hometown for 3 years, made such a decision, which is a bit naive. Parents have repeatedly discouraged them. It is not easy to pass the career establishment. Even after graduating from graduate students, they still have to face the pressure of finding a job after graduation. Why did they quit the "iron rice bowl" at this time and read a postgraduate graduate student?

For Yan Xu, the "iron rice bowl" in the eyes of the parents may not be "eaten". He told reporters that he was admitted to public institutions as soon as he graduated and was assigned to the office's administrative post. On the first day of work, the moment he walked into the office, he was half cold. There are three people in the office, a director who is already 40 years old, and a 37 -year -old staff member, the rest is only 22 years old. "Not only the office, in fact, there are not many young people in the entire unit. Everyone work like that every day to complete the task of explaining superiors. . "Yan Xu told reporters that colleges and universities that graduated from undergraduate were not famous, just one or two local colleges. During the school, a teacher in the school saw that he had achieved his grades. He persuaded him to go to a better school to continue studying, and he did not listen to it. As soon as he graduated, he successfully passed the career compilation and became the object of envy in the eyes of his classmates. As a result, he regretted it after work.

After thinking about it again, Yan Xu was determined to start the postgraduate entrance examination again. For him who has already worked, while working, there are some difficulties while concentrating on reviewing, and there have been several shakes in the middle. But in the end, he insisted on the test for three years and was finally successfully admitted this year.

"In fact, my first volunteer was the Central University of Finance and Economics, but I did not expect that the competition was so fierce this year. I took more than 360 points, and it must be enough in previous years. I expected that I could be transferred to a university in the south, and finally did not expect to go to the northeast.

Yan Xu told reporters that although his hometown is not big, he was once a well -known resource -based city inside and outside the province. However, in recent years, as mineral resources have gradually exhausted and the national industrial upgrading and transformation, the former pillar industries are no longer brilliant, the population has gradually flow, and local fiscal revenue is not as good as one year, and even the salary of civil servants has been affected. Although he was anxious, he couldn't think of any good way. Therefore, I hope to find a solution by continuing learning.

"It sounds really idealism. In the eyes of some people, I have a little naive." Yan Xu laughed at himself, "But should young people like me be an idealist?" Yan Xu said After graduating from graduate school, he will still return to his hometown and re -examine civil servants.

(Yan Xu in the text is a pseudonym)

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