Japanese youth no longer enrolling in universities

Hongo campus at University of Tokyo is seeing low numbers. Pic/PTI

The annual number of students entering university in Japan from 2040 to 2050 is expected to be about 5,00,000, some 1,30,000 fewer than in 2022, an Education Ministry report revealed.

Enrolment will be 5,10,000 or less after 2040 and is put at around 4,90,000 in 2050, down from about 6,30,000 last year, according to the projection submitted to a subcommittee of the Central Council for Education.

The Ministry calculated future enrolment by taking the number of 18-year-olds expected by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, and multiplying that by the percentage expected to enter higher education and adding the predicted number of foreign students, according to officials.

Meanwhile, the number of 18-year-olds, which is on the decline, is seen hovering around 8,20,000 and 7,90,000 annually in 2040-2050. New admissions may fall below 80 per cent of the total enrolment slots in the projection period.

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