In recent years, more and more colleges and universities have proposed to no longer provide dormitories for part-time, targeted employment or master's students in specific majors. Some schools, including Peking University, Fudan University, Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, Nanjing University, and many other well-known universities, have begun to stop providing on-campus dormitories for full-time professional master's students.
Among the schools that have announced the 2024 enrollment prospectus, there are a number of well-known universities that have clearly decided that they will no longer provide dormitories for post-secondary students.
According to data released by the Ministry of Education, in 2016, the number of graduate students enrolled in the country was 66710,000 people, and in 2022, the number of graduate students expanded to 124250,000 people, nearly doubled. In 2022, there will be 3.65 million graduate students in China, ranking second in the world.
Many colleges and universities have already built new campuses in addition to the old ones, including Shanghai Songjiang University Town, Fengxian University Town, Beijing Liangxiang Higher Education Park, Beijing Changping District Shahe Higher Education Park, Nanjing Xianlin University Town, etc., all of which were built between 2000 and 2005. Now, nearly 20 years later, these new campuses are almost "at full capacity".
In recent years, a shortage of student dormitories has been a common phenomenon in Shanghai's colleges and universities. So far in 2023 alone, some schools such as Shanghai Normal University, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, and Shanghai University of Political Science and Law have announced the start of construction of new student dormitory buildings. The shortage of dormitories has also squeezed accommodation conditions. This year, the tradition of single room accommodation for doctoral students was broken, and some doctoral students were also assigned double rooms. The imbalance between the supply and demand of graduate dormitories is inseparable from the large-scale expansion of professional master's students in China in recent years.
In some European countries, the investment and operation of student apartments is an important track for long-term rental apartment companies, but in China, such a business model still has not attracted enough attention from capital.
In an era of tight employment, a large number of young people are pouring into schools to pursue graduate studies, and it is unclear whether this is good or bad. Now we are ushering in the influx of graduate students, which means that the future is the emergence of this group of employment groups, and we have to think about the urgency of the job market. This article refers to the Economic Observer article "There are so many graduate students that there is no dormitory to live in!" 》