2024-06-10 17:22:46
Following the rise within the variety of medical faculties, the variety of college students in high-tech departments equivalent to semiconductors and synthetic intelligence (AI) will enhance by 1,145 college students for the 2025 faculty entrance examination.
Along with the rise in medical faculties, there are predictions that the acceptance charge for science and engineering departments at main universities in Seoul might decline because the variety of college students in cutting-edge departments will increase considerably.
In keeping with the Ministry of Training on the tenth, the variety of college students in high-tech college departments will enhance by a complete of 1,145 college students within the 2025 college yr, together with 569 college students within the metropolitan space and 576 college students in non-metropolitan areas.
The enlargement of universities within the high-tech subject has been promoted in earnest since final yr when President Yoon Seok-yeol ordered the Ministry of Training to ‘domesticate semiconductor expertise.’
For the 2024 college yr, a complete of 1,829 college students have been added, together with 817 within the metropolitan space and 1,021 within the non-metropolitan space, by establishing new departments in cutting-edge fields or growing the variety of college students in present departments.
Following final yr, one other large-scale enhance in personnel occurred this yr.
Wanting on the scale of enlargement of cutting-edge departments this yr, the variety of seats at a complete of 12 universities within the metropolitan space has elevated.
Hanyang College’s Erica Campus has the most important variety of college students, with 106. There are 67 folks from Ajou College, 63 from Sejong College, 60 from Yonsei College, 57 from Korea College, 53 from Inha College, and 40 from Seoul Nationwide College of Science and Expertise. Kyung Hee College (33 college students), Ewha Womans College (33 college students), Seoul Nationwide College (25 college students), Sungkyunkwan College (22 college students), and Duksung Ladies’s College (10 college students) additionally elevated the variety of college students in cutting-edge departments.
Within the non-metropolitan space, the quota for 10 universities elevated, together with 113 at Kyungpook Nationwide College, 112 at Pusan Nationwide College, 75 at Chonbuk Nationwide College, 70 at Soonchunhyang College, 67 at Gyeongsang Nationwide College, 50 at Korea College Sejong Campus, 36 at Chungnam Nationwide College, 29 at Hanbat Nationwide College, and 20 at Chonnam Nationwide College.
Because the variety of college students in cutting-edge departments will increase considerably, it’s predicted that this yr’s entrance examination may turn out to be a big variable in admissions to science and engineering departments at prime universities.
Because the variety of medical faculties will increase and choice for non-majors (autonomous number of majors) will increase, there’s a risk that the acceptance standards for prime science and engineering departments will go down.
As well as, as new cutting-edge departments and departments contracted by massive companies are concentrated in main universities within the metropolitan space and regional nationwide universities, basic personal universities exterior the metropolitan space are anticipated to expertise larger difficulties in recruiting new college students.
Lim Seong-ho, CEO of Jongno Academy, predicted, “The decline in passing scores for science and engineering majors could also be larger than for medical faculties because of the enlargement of the recruitment quota for the highest universities,” and predicted, “Because the focus of prime universities in Seoul and the metropolitan space accelerates, polarization might deepen.”
Reporter Kim Jeong-hyeon Photograph Information 1
.
2024-06-10 17:22:46