The preliminary examination for graduate students is approaching, what are the candidates concerned about?
A few days ago, more than 10 domestic universities such as Peking University, Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, and Nanjing University made it clear in the 2024 master's enrollment brochure that they will no longer provide dormitories for some graduate students, which has attracted attention.
Subsequently, "many colleges and universities clearly do not provide dormitories" rushed to the first place in the hot search.
For example, Xiamen University has made it clear in the 2024 master's enrollment brochure that the university will not arrange accommodation for part-time master's students and full-time master's students who are admitted for full-time targeted employment (except for master's students of the Counterpart Support Program for Universities in the Western Region and the Program for High-level Backbone Talents of Ethnic Minorities).
Among them, some universities do not provide accommodation for full-time professional degree master's students. For example, Peking University's 2024 Master's Degree Enrollment Guide (Headquarters) clearly states that professional degree graduate schools do not arrange accommodation. Nanjing University clarifies that in principle, the university does not provide on-campus accommodation for 2024 professional degree master's students, and students need to arrange their own accommodation, and the university will provide appropriate transportation subsidies to full-time professional degree master's students.
Some colleges and universities also implement a voluntary application system for full-time master's students. Hunan University's 2024 master's degree enrollment brochure clearly states that full-time master's degree students will be subject to a voluntary application system, and the university will provide ** for new students to choose within a certain range according to the existing dormitory resources.
A college student queues up downstairs in the dormitory to check in. **Xinhua.
The approach of these universities has sparked a lot of discussion.
Some people expressed understanding and support, believing that this would help the rational planning of resources and facilitate the early contact of graduate students with society.
However, some people questioned its reasonableness, arguing that the non-provision of dormitories increased the cost of graduate studies, hindered the exchange of teachers and students, and was not conducive to ensuring the safety of students.
Others believe that it is necessary to analyze specific issues on a case-by-case basis, and to achieve fairness and justice by giving students the right to make their own choices and properly allocating various resources.
Students: Academic achievement is the key to the selection
At a time when "many colleges and universities clearly do not provide dormitories" rushed to the hot search, there have already been graduate students who have experienced rental life.
Xiao Jiang, who is studying for a master's degree at a university in Jiangsu, said that before she was admitted to graduate school, she set a rental budget of 1,200-1,500 yuan for herself, and in the end, she rented a house with a monthly rent of 1,300 yuan in a 10-minute commute from the school.
When I applied for the exam, I also considered the issue of accommodation, but because of the school's high academic achievements and status, I really longed for its aura, so I could ignore this. Xiao Jiang mentioned that he also communicated with his parents when he applied for the exam, and they agreed that as long as he could be admitted, he could also rent a house.
During her studies, Xiao Jiang can receive a transportation subsidy of 200 yuan per month, which is provided for college and master's students, although it cannot offset the rent, but it can relieve her financial pressure during her student years.
This could be a big trend. Xiao Jiang thinks.
Many graduate students Xi prepare for exams in the library's self-Xi room. Photo by Liu Lixin.
The expansion of the campus has not kept pace with the expansion of graduate students
In recent years, with the expansion of colleges and universities to recruit master's students, the shortage of accommodation resources has become more and more prominent.
The shortage of dormitory resources in some colleges and universities reflects the hidden concern of the shortage of educational resources after the continuous expansion of the scale of graduate students.
A university teacher in Hangzhou once introduced to ** that in the past two years, because of the expansion of graduate students, the school's graduate student accommodation is indeed very tight, so the school has arranged many graduate students to live in various places. For example, arrange for undergraduate dormitories, or rent apartments next to the campus and convert them into student dormitories.
According to the "2022 National Graduate Enrollment Survey Report" released by China Education**, the total number of graduate students enrolled in 2011 was 560,000, and by 2021 it reached about 1.18 million, more than doubling in 11 years. In 2020, graduate enrollment increased by 207%。
Since then, the pace of enrollment has slowed, but the number of graduate students has continued to grow. At the beginning of 2023, New Oriental released the "2023 Master's Enrollment Data Interpretation Report", which shows that in 2023, a total of 864 enrollment units across the country will recruit a total of 761763 students (excluding push-exempt and doctoral students, the same below), an increase of 10,245 compared with the total number of non-push-exempt students in 2022. Among them, 2,532 new enrollment places for academic master's degree were added, an increase of 09%；The number of professional master's degree students increased by 16%。
In stark contrast to the expansion of graduate student enrollment, the expansion of campus buildings has been slow.
As previously reported, since 1999, colleges and universities across the country have begun to expand their campuses to provide new classrooms and dormitories for students. After 2010, with the saturation of the number of colleges and universities, the infrastructure of colleges and universities was gradually improved, and the construction of school buildings slowed down.
In this regard, Wang Yingmi, an associate researcher at the Institute of Higher Education of South China University of Technology, once analyzed that from 2000 to 2019, the average increase in the construction area of university buildings was only 335%, which is lower than the average annual growth rate of 1260%。
Experts: Improve the level of management.
Arrange student dormitories properly.
Where will the contradiction of the shortage of university dormitory resources end up and how to solve it?
Feng Shuaizhang, dean of the School of Economics and Dean of the Institute of Economics and Social Research of Jinan University, once pointed out that short-term problems such as insufficient school buildings and tight facilities caused by the expansion of enrollment are only specific difficulties in the process of expanding the enrollment of colleges and universities, which need to be solved by increasing investment and improving the management level. Properly arrange student dormitories, and colleges and universities cannot shirk their responsibilities.
On the other hand, there is also a certain call in the industry to change the way of managing the accommodation of colleges and universities and to partially divest the accommodation provision functions of universities. Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that at present, student accommodation in Chinese colleges and universities is still provided by the school, and the boarding system is generally implemented, and this boarding management method is obviously not suitable for the reform and development of colleges and universities.
Xiong Qingnian, director of the Institute of Higher Education Research of Fudan University, said that in the process of popularization and popularization of higher education, it is not realistic to rely entirely on public financial support, and there are management risks in marketization. "We need to think about how to find a stable solution between the public and market-oriented resources provided by university dormitories. This is actually a very complex systemic problem. Xiong Qingnian said.
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Some experts and scholars believe that judging from the experience of foreign universities, it is the trend of the future that major domestic universities will no longer arrange dormitories for all graduate students. However, under the higher education system with Chinese characteristics, public universities should adhere to the public welfare attribute, and these well-known universities have the responsibility to actively respond to the public's expectations, and it is still necessary to provide accommodation services for students.
Even if the on-campus dormitory is "ineffective" in the short term, students can only live off-campus, and colleges and universities cannot "leave it alone", but should do a good job of connecting and providing help for students to find accommodation resources, and arrange affordable off-campus accommodation resources as much as possible.
As early as 2019, although Fudan University and other universities clearly did not provide on-campus accommodation for post-secondary students, they worked with relevant departments to expand off-campus accommodation resources and assist full-time students to solve their accommodation needs in a socialized way, which is worth learning. More people in the education sector proposed that the local government should include students' off-campus rental housing into the low-rent housing policy for talents, and give appropriate preferential treatment and subsidies.
In recent years, many colleges and universities have been building new campuses or renovating old campuses, and with the expansion of campuses and the abundance of accommodation resources, the shortage of student dormitories is not unsolvable.
At present, colleges and universities inform students of the allocation of dormitories in advance in the enrollment brochure for master's students, and candidates may wish to carefully consider the school and degree type they apply for in combination with their economic conditions, and make a choice that meets their actual situation.
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