In recent years, more and more graduate students have found that they are facing an "era without dormitories." I finally passed the postgraduate entrance examination, but the school no longer allocates dormitories to graduate students.
According to the graduate admissions brochures of many schools, those who are generally not allocated dormitories are part-time students, junior college students, and students with local registered residence, which means that some students must rent their own rooms.
| Educational resources are tight after the continuous expansion of
The "2022 National Graduate Student Enrollment Survey Report" released by China Education Online shows that the total number of graduate student enrollment in 2011 was 560,000, reaching approximately 1.18 million in 2021, more than doubling in 11 years . In 2020, in order to cope with the impact of the epidemic and ease employment pressure, graduate student enrollment increased by 20.7% that year.
After that, the pace of enrollment expansion slowed down, but the number of graduate student enrollments still maintained growth. According to New Oriental's "2023 Master's Degree Enrollment Data Interpretation Report", there are 864 admissions units across the country recruiting a total of 761,763 people for the 2023 postgraduate entrance examination (excluding recommended and doctoral students, the same below), which is newer than the total number of non-recommended postgraduate entrance examinations in 2022. An increase of 10,245 people. Among them, there are 2,532 new enrollment places for academic master's degree, an increase of 0.9%; 7,713 new enrollment places for professional master's degree, an increase of 1.6%.
Under the general trend of enrollment expansion, the number of graduate students is bound to grow exponentially. In sharp contrast to the expansion of graduate enrollment is the slow growth of campus expansion. According to previous reports, since 1999, colleges and universities across the country have begun to expand their campuses to provide students with new classrooms and dormitories. After 2010, as the number of people in colleges and universities became saturated, the infrastructure of colleges and universities gradually improved, and the construction of school buildings also slowed down. By consulting the "National Higher Education School Buildings Situation" in the "China Education Statistical Yearbook", it was found that the area of newly added school buildings over the years and the area under construction in middle schools over the years was as high as 9.62 million square meters. However, with the first wave of construction in colleges and universities, In the past, school building expansion has gradually slowed down, and it is expected to slow down by 40% in 2021 compared with 10 years ago.
When corresponding measures cannot be taken in a short period of time, the situation of more monks and less rice will become more and more obvious.
The large number of applicants, large enrollment expansion, and high housing prices have all led to insufficient dormitory resources.
How difficult is it to get accommodation for a graduate student?
In recent years, problems related to conflicts in graduate student dormitories have occurred frequently.
Although some schools do not explicitly stipulate that they do not provide dormitories, the reality is that if they cannot get dormitories, they will have no place to live.
In addition, many students also expressed their approval and concern about the current situation of dormitory shortage. Many colleges and universities are constantly renovating dormitory buildings or adding people to existing dormitories to alleviate the embarrassment of having no place to live.
From this, can we predict that if universities cannot solve the embarrassing situation of having no land to build dormitories, then it may become the norm not to provide dormitories for all graduate students in the future.
"Isn't this further clear that going to graduate school is actually just another form of unemployment?" Under related topics, netizens discussed this heatedly. There are several points of contention: Is the school passing on costs? Does the graduate student have the ability to live independently and enter the society? Should professional master's degrees and academic master's degrees be treated differently?
Expert: It is still necessary to provide accommodation services for students
According to media reports, the groups affected by the "no dormitory arrangements" in colleges and universities are often professional master's degree or part-time graduate students. Very few colleges and universities even provide accommodation for academic master's students. None of the problems can be solved. This "one-size-fits-all" approach based solely on the nature of postgraduate training ignores differences in students' family economic conditions and lacks careful and thoughtful consideration.
Some experts and scholars believe that judging from the experience of foreign universities, it is the future trend for major domestic universities to no longer arrange dormitories for all graduate students. However, under the higher education system with Chinese characteristics, public universities must adhere to the public welfare attribute. These well-known universities have the responsibility to actively respond to public expectations and provide accommodation services for students.
Even if the on-campus dormitories are “inefficient” in the short term and can only allow students to live off campus, colleges and universities cannot “turn away”. Instead, they must make connections, provide help for students to find accommodation resources, and arrange affordable off-campus accommodation as much as possible. resource. In recent years, many colleges and universities have been building new campuses or renovating old campuses. With the expansion of campuses and the abundance of accommodation resources, the tension in student dormitories is not an unsolvable problem.
Currently, colleges and universities inform students of dormitory allocation in advance in their master's degree admissions brochures. Candidates may wish to carefully consider the school and degree type they apply for based on their economic conditions, and make a choice that suits their actual circumstances.
