The 2021 Education Bulletin is long overdue and will be released after the fall semester of 2022, the latest release since 1998.
China and the United States are the two countries with the largest number of higher education students in the world today, and the comparison between the two countries is of certain significance. However, due to the difference in data caliber, it is necessary to pay attention to the main reason for the difference when comparing.
Under the trend of my country’s higher education expansion, the number of U.S. enrollments has declined, and the epidemic has accelerated the decline; The graduation rate of American universities has increased, but it is still far lower than my country’s graduation rate; under the expansion of domestic enrollment, teachers’ follow-up speed is slow , leading to an increase in the student-teacher ratio, but a decrease in the United States; the gap between the two countries' gross enrollment rate has increased significantly.
1. In the past three years, the trend of university enrollment in China and the United States has diverged.
The data of freshmen in the United States is the number of students entering colleges and universities for the first time. The data in this article is only subject to the corresponding official disclosure.
The picture above shows that the number of higher education students in my country from 2019 to 2021 has a significant expansion trend, constantly setting new records : In 2021, general undergraduate enrollment will be 4.446 million, an increase of 1.21% compared with the previous year; , an increase of 7.66%; 5,525,800 students were enrolled in higher vocational (college) courses, a decrease of 3.16%, and 3,785,300 students were enrolled in adult colleges and universities, an increase of 4.06% over the previous year. The hardest graduation season will continue.
There will be 2116,600 new enrollments in the United States in 2021, an increase of about 0.4% from last year. However, compared to pre-pandemic levels in the fall of 2019, the number of incoming students in the fall of has far from recovered from last year's decline.
2. The number of students enrolled in China is 2.58 times that of the United States, and the number of students in the United States has decreased by nearly one million in two years of the epidemic. Higher education self-study exams The number of students enrolled in various forms of higher education such as colleges and universities.
The figure below shows that from 2019 to 2021, the scale of higher education in China will continue to grow, but it will show a downward trend in the United States.
In 2021, the total number of higher education students in my country will be 44.3 million, an increase of 2.47 million over the previous year and 2.58 times that of the United States. The gross enrollment rate of higher education was 57.8%, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the previous year.
In the United States, the number of college enrollments in the fall of 2021 is 17.3023 million, a decrease of 2.7% compared to 2020, a decrease of 476,100 students, and a total decrease of 5.1% in two years since the start of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, that is, a decrease of 937,500 students. Undergraduate enrollment alone was down 3.1 percent from last year.
3. The six-year graduation rate in the United States is only 62.2%. 4.281 million ordinary undergraduate graduates, compared withLast year, the number increased by 75,900, an increase of 1.80%. There were 3,984,100 graduates of higher vocational (college) colleges, an increase of 217,200 or 5.77% over the previous year.
The six-year average graduation rate in the United States in 2021 will reach 62.2%, reaching 1,476,800 people, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from 2020. Compared with the four-year undergraduate graduation rate of about 97% in the same period in my country, there is a difference of nearly 35 percentage points. The key factors affecting the graduation rate of American colleges include: good or bad grades in high school can increase the graduation rate, part-time, full-time work, enrolling in community college, GAP and taking leave will reduce the college graduation rate.
4. The average student-teacher ratio of American college students is nearly 4 people.
In 2021, the general undergraduate schools in China will be 17.90:1, and the undergraduate-level vocational schools will have a student-teacher ratio of 19.38:1. Under the enrollment expansion of , the follow-up speed of teachers is slow, which leads to the increase of student-teacher ratio .
2020 autumn in the United States The average ratio of full-time university teachers and students in higher education institutions is 13.6, which is nearly 4 fewer than that in China . The student-teacher ratio of different American universities is also quite different. For example, the average of private four-year universities is 10.1:1; public universities are 14.8:1. Compared with the student-teacher ratio of 16.8 in 2009, it has declined.
5. Differences in caliber of gross enrollment rate between China and the United States are mainly caused by system differences.
Under the expansion of enrollment, the gross enrollment rate of higher education in my country will be 57.8% in 2021, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the previous year. In 2010, it was only 26.5%.
USAThe overall college enrollment rate for 18-24 year olds in 2020 is 40%, with Asians (64%) higher than Whites (41%). From 40% in 2010 to 40% in 2020, little has changed.
The gap in gross enrollment ratio between China and the United States is increasing. The United States presents a downward trend, while my country's trend is obvious in the morning.
The reason for this difference is mainly:
1) Among the college students in the United States, 34% of them are over 24 years old, that is, they are adults, while in my country they are mainly of the right age group.
2) The proportion of full-time students in American universities is only 64% (2021), and the proportion of part-time students is much higher than that of Chinese universities.
3) American universities adopt the credit system and allow a break in the middle of the school, and it takes a long time to complete the studies. The six-year average graduation rate of the United States in 2021 will reach 62.2%, while The on-time graduation rate of students from ordinary colleges and universities in China is about 97%.
6. The proportion of private universities in the United States is relatively high. Changes in private education policies, data did not follow up in time.
There will be 3.0824 million private college students in the United States in the fall of 2021, accounting for 26% of the total number of students in the United States, slightly higher than that of my country.
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