This Year, Recruitment-Conditioned Contract Departments Increased by 9.4%

Opportunity Balance Selection Rate 14.3% This Year, Up 1.6%p from Last Year
Number of Remote Lectures Decreased by 50%... Impact of Hybrid Online and Offline Classes

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] This year, employment-conditional contract departments increased by 9.4% compared to the previous year.

According to the 'June University Information Disclosure Analysis Results' announced by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Council for University Education on the 30th, the number of contract departments in 2022 was 230, a 1.7% decrease from the previous year, but employment-conditional contract departments increased by 5 (9.4%) to 58. Re-education contract departments decreased by 5.0% to 172 compared to the previous year.

Contract departments operate special curricula according to industry demands and are divided into 'employment-conditional' where students complete special curricula and are linked to employment, and 're-education' for re-education, job skill improvement, and career change education for industry employees.

The number of students in contract departments was 8,032, a 0.6% increase from the previous year. The number of students in employment-conditional contract departments increased by 19% to 3,018, while the number of students in re-education departments decreased by 8.0% to 5,014. The reduction in re-education contract departments is interpreted as due to the termination of contracts in some universities because of decreased industry demand.

Customized curricula operated by integrating industry demand with employment agreements and preferences numbered 333 last year, a 4.9% decrease from the previous year. The number of participating students was 12,444, down 9.5% from the previous year.

As the second year of COVID-19 began, universities conducted both face-to-face and online lectures, and the number of remote lectures in 2021 was halved. The number of remote lectures decreased by 49.9%, from 340,793 in 2020 to 170,882 last year.

The proportion of freshmen admitted through opportunity-balanced selection this year was 14.3% (47,421 students), an increase of 1.6 percentage points from 2021 (42,079 students). Opportunity-balanced selection refers to the equal opportunity admission system and special admissions outside the quota (such as recipients of basic living subsidies, graduates of specialized high schools, employed graduates of specialized high schools, and students from rural areas).

The opportunity-balanced selection rate at national and public universities was 19.3%, 6.5 percentage points higher than private universities (12.8%). Non-metropolitan universities had a rate of 17.0%, which was 6.5 percentage points higher than metropolitan universities (10.5%).

In 2022, the proportion of freshmen from different high school types at general and education universities was ▲general high schools 73.9% ▲special-purpose high schools 4.3% ▲specialized high schools 6.5% ▲autonomous high schools 9.7% ▲others 5.6%. The proportion of general high school graduates increased by 0.5 percentage points compared to last year.

The average hourly lecture fee for university lecturers in the first semester was 67,400 KRW, up 0.7% from last year (67,000 KRW). The average lecturer fee at national and public universities was 89,400 KRW, a 1.3% increase from last year (88,200 KRW), while private universities remained the same at 56,400 KRW.

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