"Regular Admission Additional Recruitment 169 Universities 13,000 Students... 25% Decrease Compared to Previous Year"

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The number of additional regular admissions for the 2024 academic year is expected to decrease by about 25% compared to last year, reaching around 13,000 students.

Jongno Academy announced on the 25th that, after analyzing the publicly available data from the Korea Council for University Education, 169 universities nationwide failed to fill 13,148 spots in the 2024 regular admissions.

In the Seoul area, 31 universities did not fill 618 spots (4.7% of unfilled spots), in the Gyeongin area, 35 universities did not fill 935 spots (7.1%), and in the provincial areas, 103 universities did not fill 11,595 spots (88.2%).

Compared to the additional admissions due to unfilled spots in last year's regular admissions (17,439 students), this represents a 24.6% decrease (4,291 students).

This is presumed to be because universities facing difficulties in filling spots due to the declining student population actively encouraged registration through phone notifications and other means during the additional admissions process.

In particular, in non-metropolitan areas, the total admission quota for the 2024 academic year itself decreased by 1,815 compared to last year, which appears to have contributed to the reduction in unfilled spots.

By region, in non-metropolitan areas, 9 universities in Gyeongbuk failed to fill 1,653 spots, 13 universities in Busan failed to fill 1,569 spots, and 9 universities in Gwangju failed to fill 1,470 spots.

In the Seoul area, unfilled spots occurred at Seokyeong University with 111, Sejong University with 53, Hansung University with 34, Hongik University with 31, Kookmin University with 29, Chung-Ang University with 19, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies with 18, Hanyang University with 17, and University of Seoul with 3.

Accordingly, universities will conduct additional admissions for the 2024 academic year until the 29th of this month.

Additional admissions due to unfilled spots at non-metropolitan universities have been continuously decreasing, with 23,767 in 2021, 16,640 in 2022, and 15,579 in 2023.

Jongno Academy stated, "This situation reflects some results of measures taken by provincial universities to adjust admission quotas in response to the declining school-age population. However, it seems that concentration in the metropolitan area is accelerating due to the expansion of admission quotas in the metropolitan area and the increase in medical school quotas."

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