It's freezing, and the 2024 graduate admissions exam is final.
It's over. According to statistics, the number of postgraduate students from 2021 to 2023 will be 3.77 million, 4.57 million, and 4.74 million respectively, and the number of applicants in 2024 will drop to 4.38 million, but it is still at a high level.
As for the reason for the postgraduate entrance examination, it is still mainly due to employment difficulties. Many people encounter unsatisfactory employment when they graduate from undergraduate, and hope to improve their first degree and enhance their employment competitiveness through postgraduate entrance examinations. Seeing this trend, colleges and universities have also increased the scale of graduate student enrollment, especially those universities, where the ratio of graduate students to undergraduates has reached 1 or even higher.
So, can the original intention of the postgraduate entrance examination party be realized?
In 2023, the enrollment of master's students in China will exceed 1.25 million, and the number of graduates will exceed 950,000. Many graduates find that this year's employment situation is not better than before three o'clock, and they have studied for three years for a master's degree, and their competitiveness may be a little higher, but the job market has shrunk too much. The saddest thing is that the 985 graduate students of the double non-university undergraduates, when competing for state-owned enterprises, were out of the initial screening stage of the resume, on the grounds that the undergraduate non-985 (now the enrollment scale of 985 graduate students greatly exceeds that of undergraduates, and there are many students who are admitted from the undergraduate of the double non-university universities). This part of the graduates looked up to the sky and sighed: Have I studied in vain in the past three years?
In the final analysis, the reason for the formation of today's involution situation is nothing more than the global economic contraction caused by the epidemic, the Sino-US war, and the Russia-Ukraine war, and perhaps the bad situation will continue until next year. Then candidates who have passed the postgraduate examination in the first two years and want to postpone their employment difficulties may have miscalculated, and they will definitely not be able to resist the general trend. Let's boil.
In any case, I hope that this year's candidates will be able to perform at their level normally. Although the number of graduate students has decreased, the competition is still fierce, especially for candidates who are admitted to prestigious schools.
Good luck to all!