Next year, the master’s degree enrollment plan will increase compared with this year5%About, doctoral student enrollment plan will increase1.7%. Reporters learned yesterday from the Ministry of Education that the enrollment of majors related to cutting-edge technologies and basic disciplines such as energy and information will be focused on supporting, and the enrollment scale will be limited for disciplines and majors where it is difficult for graduates to find jobs.

The Ministry of Education stated that next year it will intensify the adjustment of the enrollment disciplines and professional structure, focusing on supporting the key areas and priority themes identified in the "National Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan", including the enrollment of cutting-edge technologies and basic disciplines such as energy, information, biology, oceans, aerospace, new materials, advanced manufacturing and other related majors; resolutely limit the enrollment scale of disciplines and majors with high employment pressure for graduates and insufficient social demand.

Relevant people analyze that an important reason for the moderate expansion of graduate student enrollment is to alleviate the current severe situation of difficulty in finding employment for college students. It is understood that changes in the current economic situation have had a certain degree of adverse impact on the employment of college graduates in some regions and industries. The pressure on the total number of college graduates nationwide continues to increase,2009The number of college graduates reached611Ten thousand people, ratio2008year increase52Ten thousand people.

（08Year12month10日 Author: Luo Luo Hong

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