On the afternoon of December 4, last year, a 2021 college admissions strategy briefing session held by an academy in Seoul is being broadcast live online. yunhap news
In the 2021 school year, as colleges that could not fill the number of colleges continued to fill the number, the number of additional recruits increased significantly to 26,000. This is the largest in 16 years since the 2005 entrance exam. In particular, additional recruitment of universities in non-metropolitan areas exceeded 90% of the total. The myth that’universities fall in the order of cherry blossoms’ has become reality.
According to the Korean Council for University Education on the 22nd, the total number of additional recruits held at 162 four-year universities this year was 26,129, nearly three times higher than the previous year (9830). (As of 9 o’clock on the 22nd) Is held for 6 days from the 22nd to the 27th.
More than 90% of additional recruits are local
Additional recruitment is conducted only at universities that have not filled the quota even though additional candidates for regular recruitment have been selected. Most of the additional recruitment this year is concentrated in local universities in the non-metropolitan area. The number of additional recruits in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon totaled 2240, accounting for only 8.6% of the total, but non-metropolitan areas accounted for 23889, accounting for 91.4%.
By region, Gyeongsangbuk-do has the largest number with 4331 people, followed by Busan (3883), Jeonbuk (2566), and Chungnam (1986). The total number of regular recruitment at universities in Gyeongbuk is 9,000, which means that nearly half of them have not been filled. Among the universities, local private universities such as Daegu University (Gyeongbuk, 876 students), Dongmyeong University (Busan, 804 students), and Sangji University (Gangwon, 769 students) did not fill more than half of the regular recruitment.
The number of recruitment recruits by region. Graphic = Reporter Kim Kyung-jin [email protected]
Not only private universities, but also among regional bases and national universities have not been able to fill the capacity, so there are not a few places that are recruiting more. Nine local national universities, including Gyeongbuk National University (135 students), Gyeongsang National University (123 students), and Busan National University (90 students), are recruiting an additional 715 students.
The biggest cause is the decline in the school-age population
This is a result expected to some extent during the regular college admission process. The JoongAng Ilbo surveyed the results of regular recruitment of 187 universities nationwide last month, and found that 90 schools (48%) had a competition rate of less than 3:1. At the appointed time, up to 3 applications can be submitted per person, so if the competition rate does not exceed 3:1, it is regarded as’in reality’. In particular, in the Yeong-Honam region, 78% of the competition rate is less than 3:1, which is predicted to be a large-scale shortage.
Experts on entrance examinations blame the declining school-age population as the cause of the massive shortfall in local universities. The number of applicants for the 2021 University Academic Proficiency Test (SAT) was 49,3433, a decrease of 55,301 from the previous year (54,8734). The number of applicants for the SAT is 60,000 fewer than the university entrance quota (55,5774).
“As the number of students decreases, the university’s admission competition rate has declined, and the number of additional recruits has increased,” Lee Man-ki, director of the Yuwei Education Evaluation Research Institute, said.
On May 17 last year, a telecommunications company held an untact admissions facility name session for high school 3rd graders. yunhap news
Local university “Until the corona has insufficient capacity…no countermeasure”
Local universities have an emergency in their normal operation, but there are no suitable measures. A professor at a private university in Busan said, “The number of foreign students from the coronavirus has significantly decreased this year, which hurts the finances and it is not easy to fill the quota.” “The decline in the school-age population will proceed faster in the future. I confessed.
It is not known whether the crisis can be escaped with additional recruitment. Seong-ho Lim, CEO of Jongno Academy’s Sky Education, said, “Normal 90% of the students are recruited through additional recruitment, but this year, the number of candidates is very small, and universities with more than 200 additional recruits are likely to be less than 30-40%.”
In the aftermath of Corona 19, a college admissions strategy briefing held in a current parking lot in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul last June, hosted by Jongno Academy, is being held in a drive-through method. yunhap news
As the number of applicants decreases in local universities, there are cases in which students pass with extremely low grades. In one college admissions community, a case of passing the mathematics department at a local national university even though he received an average grade of 6 or lower on the SAT became a hot topic. In this department, 49 people applied for the selection of 19 students, but the successful candidates passed through to other universities and additionally passed, and even those with the lowest grades passed.
The entrance examination industry believes that additional recruitment can be the third entrance exam following the occasional and on-time basis. Additional recruitment can be applied if there is no fact of passing or enrolled in the regular recruitment, failed the regular recruitment, or abandoned registration. Those who pass the regular recruitment of industrial and technical colleges can apply regardless of whether they are registered or not. This year, 20 additional medical, dental and oriental medical colleges with high preference are also selected from all over the country, so it is necessary to check the number of recruits by college.
Reporter Jeon Minhee [email protected]