There is no dormitory for college and master students, the cost of graduate students has increased, and the accommodation problem needs to be solved!
However, for some newly admitted graduate students, admission to graduate school is a joyful thing, but they have encountered a problem: some universities no longer provide dormitories for professional master's students. As early as 2020, the Beijing Campus of Beijing Normal University no longer allocated dormitories for professional master's students. All professional master's students have to rent a house in other places, which undoubtedly increases the cost of postgraduate study. What is the reason for this phenomenon?
Phenomenon: Tensions in dormitories have become the norm.
The scarcity of graduate dormitories is not unique and is common in large universities. Many universities no longer provide dormitories for master's students in specific disciplines, including part-time and directly employed graduates. This is now slowly expanding to professional master's programs.
With the number of graduate students increasing year by year, the dormitory resources of the old campuses of many colleges and universities have long been stretched. According to statistics, the number of graduate students in the country was 660,000 in 2016 and will increase to 3.65 million by 2022. In the face of such tremendous growth, it is difficult for colleges and universities to provide enough dormitory space, even if they try hard.
In response to this situation, many universities have taken various measures. Some colleges and universities choose to rent a house off-campus for a long time as a temporary residence for graduate students; Some colleges and universities vacate dormitories for students to live in; Some colleges and universities have increased investment in the construction of new dormitory buildings and increased the number of student dormitories, such as Hunan Normal University, which rents student apartments near the school to solve the problem of graduate student accommodation. Although these measures have alleviated the pressure of accommodation to a certain extent, it is still difficult to completely solve the accommodation problem.
Results: Increased study costs.
The overcrowding of graduate dormitories not only brings inconvenience to students' lives, but also increases the financial burden of students to a certain extent. In Beijing, for example, the monthly rent of a single room near a university in Haidian District is basically around 2,000-4,000 yuan. The high rent means that many graduate students have to choose to share a house, and even if they choose to share a room, the cost of rent is much higher than that of a dormitory. If you live in a student dormitory, the accommodation cost is about 1,200 yuan a year, but if you choose to rent a house in another place, it will cost you more than 2,000 yuan a month, and at least 20,000 yuan a year, which greatly increases the cost of graduate study.
In order to reduce costs, some students choose to live away from urban areas. In first-tier cities, although rents in the suburbs are lower than those in the city center, the distance from schools, long commuting time, and high transportation costs not only affect the efficiency of learning, but also increase the cost of living.
For universities, the crowded dormitory environment also brings a series of management problems. How to ensure the safety of off-campus dormitory students and provide effective learning and living conditions is a challenge that colleges and universities have to face.
How to cope. Nowadays, colleges and universities are mainly for part-time graduate students, and there are no longer dormitories for professional master's students, but for academic master's degrees, colleges and universities still provide on-campus accommodation, so we try to choose academic master's degrees when we study for graduate students, especially for first-class universities in cities with relatively scarce accommodation resources.