2023 postgraduate sprint: the number of applicants or re -innovated high -priced training classes in the price -performance ratio controversy

The 21st Century Business Herald reporter Wang Feng and intern Han Tian Beijing reported on the opening ceremony on September 1st. On the day of the opening ceremony of the September 1st, Yang Meng (pseudonym) sent the roommate to the school, turned back to the rental house of only her, and said in silence: "Come on, see you next year."

Yang Meng graduated from a 211 university in Beijing this year. She and her roommate were classmates during the undergraduate. The two applied for graduate students in our school together. However, the results were very different. The roommate successfully scored, but she was 12 points less than the score line.

After the postgraduate school, Yang Meng internship in a game company for several months, and she did not get the offer in the end, and decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination again. On the day of sending her roommate, Yang Meng returned to the room and started to memorize words.

The horn of the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023 has officially sounded. The Ministry of Education issued a notice on September 6 that the initial test time for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2023 was from December 24th to 25th, 2022.

In recent years, the hot postgraduate entrance examination has continued to heat up, and the number of applicants and reimbursement compared with repeatedly reached a record high. In 2022, the number of applicants reached 4.57 million. No accident, the postgraduate entrance examination will usher in more candidates in 2023. New Oriental recently predicted that the number of postgraduate entrance examinations in 2023 will reach 5.2 million, and this is still conservative estimation.

Why is the postgraduate competition increasingly fierce and who is applying for graduate students?

Competition is becoming increasingly fierce

Yang Meng still remembers the postgraduate entrance examination in 2022. "The score line is too high. My score is completely okay in previous years."

"In 2022, the postgraduate entrance examination is indeed different. Because in previous years, the national line of the initial test of the postgraduate entrance examination generally declined, but there was no professional national line decline at the beginning of the test last year." Said Wang Jiangtao, an English teacher Wang Jiangtao.

In 2022, the five disciplinary categories with the highest national national line were literature (367 points), art (361 points), economics (360 points), management (353 points), and education (351 points).

It is worth noting that the unpopular professional philosophy and history of unpopular professional philosophy, the national line has skyrocketed by 15 points, and science and engineering have risen by 10 points respectively. Wang Jiangtao judged, "In the future, there may be no more upright majors in the traditional sense. No matter what major apply for, you can only have a chance to win."

Compared with academic masters, the number of professional masters is more and emphasizes applied, but in 2022, the National Line of the Postgraduate Entrance Examination also decreases year -on -year.

Among them, only a few professional national lines such as agriculture, veterinary, landscape gardens, forestry, military, and military affairs, and fresh students that were not allowed to apply for the previous year were the same as the previous year without rising.

"I have graduated from undergraduate, and now I can't participate in many school recruits, so I still want to finish studying and find a job." Yang Meng told the 21st Century Business Herald.

Data show that since the postgraduate entrance examination in 2017, the number of applicants across the country has risen for 7 consecutive years, from 200,000 to 4.57 million, an increase of 127.4%.

The number of graduate enrollment has risen for 11 consecutive years since 2011. At that time, the total number of students across the country was only 560,000. It is expected to reach about 1.2 million in 2022.

The speed of expansion is still not as good as the growth rate of registration. According to New Oriental estimates, the postal entrance examination for the postgraduate entrance examination in 2021 is 3.37: 1, and the postgraduate entrance examination in 2012 is expanded to 3.8: 1.

Li Lin, director of the postgraduate entrance examination project of the New Oriental University, recently introduced that the number of applicants in the country in 2023 will exceed 5.2 million, and the number of admission will exceed 1.3 million. The reimbursement ratio will be expanded to 4: 1.

Recently, some universities announced the major data of graduate students in 2022, which has shown the fierce competition for postgraduate entrance examinations. The average reimbursement ratio of Shanghai University is 5.06: 1. Among them, the most intense competition is the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, with a reference ratio of 7.35: 1.

China Communication University of China 2015 admitted for a master's degree in admission in 2022, of which 649 were exempted, accounting for 35.93%of the total number of admission of full -time masters, a record high. The opportunity to exempt students with innovation is reduced accordingly, and the competition is naturally more intense.

In recent years, Hubei University has repeatedly reached a record high. In 2021, the number of applicants exceeded 10,000 for the first time. In 2022, the number of applicants was 15,084, an increase of nearly 50 %.

Yang Meng has already been prepared for the competition of this year's postgraduate entrance examination. She feels that she will definitely be more intense. "Because the employment situation is not good, there are more and more people in the postgraduate entrance examination, and they can only face the best state."

Leave the workplace and enter the campus

Liu Zhen (a pseudonym) has just started. She is admitted to a graduate student from a 211 university in Beijing from a "double non -" university in Heilongjiang.

After the admission, Liu Zhen discovered that of his 13 classmates, 4 people were previous candidates, that is, the students who had only succeeded in the second postgraduate entrance examination, and one of them was still preparing for the exam while working.

"Everyone knows that the postgraduate entrance examination is difficult, but it is difficult to find a job. Many people think that it is better to spend two years before studying and then find a job." Liu Zhen will tell the 21st Century Business Herald.

The proportion of previous candidates is increasing, which is the trend of postgraduate entrance examination in recent years. Compared with a bachelor's degree, the graduate degree has certain advantages in terms of job title rating and high -education talent support, and even the necessary conditions for some positions.

In the postgraduate training class, Liu Zhen saw many previous candidates. They or they were working or out of delivery. The reasons for the postgraduate entrance examinations were all overwhelmed: some determined the "dream of famous schools". It is hoped that the work rhythm of "996" has been relieved; there are still small town youths who have worked for many years, but the marriage fails. I hope to come to a big city to change a life situation through the postgraduate entrance examination. In contrast, Liu Zhen's identity is quite special. She is a college candidate. That is to say, after her college entrance examination, she completed the "two consecutive jumps" from college to undergraduate to graduate students.

"The cultural foundation of college students is poor, and the learning atmosphere of some colleges and universities is also poor. Therefore, the students 'postgraduate students' postgraduate entrance examinations are not good, and they need to pay greater efforts." Liu Zhen said.

As vocational education stops at the "ceiling" at the specialty level, it has also become a choice for more and more higher vocational graduates after graduation. According to data from the Michael Research Institute, the proportion of high -vocational graduates in 2012 was only 3.3%, compared with 19.3%of the 2021 years later, an increase of more than 4.8 times.

Further analysis of the reasons for the undergraduate of higher vocational students found that "want to go to a better university" to become the first driving force for high -vocational students to rise. "Good prospects" are secondary reasons (2021: 28%, 2012: 27%); and because of the proportion of "career development needs", it has decreased by 8 percentage points, and 19%of the 2021 session.

It can be found that further studies have become the main driving force for the college, and this motivation has promoted the students who have promoted the students to continue their postgraduate entrance examinations.

However, Liu Zhen told the 21st Century Business Herald that some of the course settings of the current promotion are not friendly to postgraduate students. "I have not studied higher mathematics when I was studying. After the promotion, I had to complete the three courses of higher mathematics, linear algebra, probability theory and mathematical statistics within one year. The undergraduate students were finished within two years. Say that the time to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination is more urgent and more difficult. "

The sky -high training course is not uncommon

Graduate students have become an important issue in more than more and more undergraduate students.

Xia Ziqi (pseudonym), a 2023 -year -old undergraduate student in a "double -non -" university in Beijing, planned to apply for a 985 university. She told reporters that she has learned about the postgraduate entrance examination in the next semester of my junior year, and then chose the school and majors of the postgraduate entrance examination. Essence

Li Lin, director of the postgraduate entrance examination project of New Oriental University, said that according to statistical analysis of New Oriental students, the test preparation time for postgraduate students in 2023 has been extended from 12 months of postgraduate students to 22 months.

Liu Chengfeng (pseudonym), who is preparing to cross the financial science major from the application statistics major, "get a big capital". He spent 82,000 yuan to report a postgraduate training course. The four -way class of the joint entrance examination and financial comprehensive class, there are more than forty hours of one -to -one lessons, as well as retesting lessons.

"Because their undergraduate schools and their academic performance are not very good, and finance is a popular major in postgraduate entrance examinations, and the competition is fierce, so I decided to fight." Liu Chengfeng told the 21st Century Business Herald.

Throughout July and August, Liu Chengfeng participated in closed training in training institutions. Just like boarding schools, the students lived in the dormitory and formed a fixed class every day to attend classes. They also arranged self -study at night.

However, such a high -intensity learning made Liu Chengfeng feel a bit difficult. From time to time, he wanted to lower the goal of the postgraduate entrance examination. "But the teachers of the training institution often give us‘ chicken blood ’. I advise us to rush to famous schools. I have a little confidence in myself.

The competition for postgraduate entrance examination is so fierce that the sky -high training courses are common. The 21st Century Economic Herald reporters learned that the agreement classes born in the field of public examination have spread to postgraduate training. Such training courses are high, but if candidates do not pass the preliminary test, they will return some of them or even full tuition.

According to reports, even the teaching and training institutions have opened the so -called "re -examination and classes", claiming that there is "internal resources", which can ensure that the retest can be passed. The price is generally around tens of thousands of yuan, and the most expensive ones even cost nearly 100,000 yuan. However, the so -called "exclusive resources" are just publicity gimmicks, and many teaching and training institutions are only in a blog.

Liu Chengfeng's class also agreed that if the initial test could not be returned, some tuition fees could be returned. He has been in the live broadcast class since October last year. After the summer vacation training, one -on -one courses will start. Each course will have a special tutoring teacher.

"Students can discuss the time and content of the class with the teacher. After the consumption of the dozen hours of the course, it is estimated that they have to buy lessons." Liu Chengfeng said.

Yang Meng also spent nearly 10,000 yuan in a professional course training class during the postgraduate entrance examination. "Now some institutions are particularly subdivided. They have accumulated a lot of experience for a certain major or a school to conduct training, but if you claim that the internal relationships" must be false publicity, the postgraduate entrance examination must depend on yourself. "

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