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lanzhou university recently announced that the total number of graduate students will exceed the total number of undergraduate students for the first time in 2024. in recent years, the scale of graduate student enrollment at lanzhou university has been expanding year by year, and in 2019 the number of graduate students has exceeded that of undergraduate students.

the school believes that the total number of graduate students in comprehensive, research-oriented universities exceeds that of undergraduates, which is an important step in building a high-level research university. with the continuous development of society and economy, the market demand for high-level talents is growing, and more and more people are eager to get a higher level of education. the expansion of the number of graduate students, the strengthening of training efforts, and the improvement of training quality are the needs of the development of the new era.

lanzhou university said that in the past three years, the university has continuously optimized the adjustment of disciplines and majors, and added a number of doctoral and master's programs such as materials and chemical engineering, energy and power, and biosafety. graduate students in newly added disciplines and majors in response to national needs have become an important part of the expansion of the total scale of graduate students. in the future, lanzhou university will further target national strategies, optimize the layout of disciplines and majors, actively promote interdisciplinary integration, and promote the high-quality construction of disciplines and majors.

what also attracted attention was that in early september this year, according to the big data of the 2024 freshmen released by zhejiang university of technology, the school admitted 5,342 undergraduates and 5,382 graduate students, and the ratio of graduate students to undergraduates exceeded 1:1 for the first time.

in 2023, zhejiang university of technology admitted 5,231 undergraduates and 5,214 postgraduates, with a postgraduate-to-undergraduate ratio of 1:1.003.

in the same year, the topic "beijing's number of master's and doctoral graduates exceeds undergraduates for the first time" was once a hot search on multiple social platforms. according to the "statistical overview of beijing's education development in the 2022-2023 academic year" released by the beijing municipal education commission, the number of full-time graduates from beijing's universities in 2023 is expected to be about 296,000, including more than 160,000 postgraduates, 30,000 more than undergraduates.

according to the review of china newsweek in the same year, shanghai, which has many key universities, also experienced a similar situation. data show that tongji university will have about 4,400 undergraduate graduates and about 6,500 master and doctoral graduates in 2023; shanghai international studies university will have about 3,200 graduates in 2023, of which about 1,700 are master and doctoral graduates. shanghai jiaotong university will have 3,928 undergraduate graduates in 2022, and the number of graduate students is as high as 6,422. east china normal university will have 3,485 full-time undergraduate graduates and 4,139 graduate students in 2022. as early as 2021, nearly one-third of universities in shanghai had more graduate students than undergraduates.

in addition, many local universities also show an "inverted" situation of undergraduate and postgraduate numbers. for example, among the graduates of sun yat-sen university, nanjing university and xi'an jiaotong university, the proportion of postgraduates is significantly higher than that of undergraduates. education experts pointed out that the increase in the number of postgraduates is not only a reflection of social progress, but also a result of increased disposable income of families and increased willingness to invest in education, reflecting the recognition of the value of higher education by society and individuals.

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(source: elephant news)