According to public information, this policy is not implemented in the first year, nor is it unique to a school. The reporter saw from the "Guidance Notes for Enrollment of Postgraduate Freshmen" issued by official website University in the past six years that the accommodation is subject to a voluntary application system, and according to the existing dormitory resources, housing is provided for freshmen to choose within a certain range. In addition to Hunan University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Beijing Normal University and other universities have similar situations.
In fact, the reason for this phenomenon is very simple. The enrollment expansion is too fast, and the dormitory resources can't keep up with the growth of enrollment. According to public data, in the past 23 years, the number of graduate students enrolled in China has surged by 15 times. At this growth rate, it is not difficult to imagine that student dormitories rely on "grabbing" and "drawing lots".
The public is more worried about whether this will become a normal state. It seems possible at this stage. The expansion of university facilities is unlikely to be carried out year by year, but the expansion of enrollment is almost increasing year by year, and this shortage of resources will be aggravated in the future.
Many students may not adapt to this situation. After all, it is almost common sense to go to school and live in a dormitory, and many students may find it difficult to accept the reality of renting their own houses during school. And affordable accommodation is also an attraction for further study. If the accommodation fee is too high, people's desire to learn will be greatly reduced.
But people should be prepared for this. We have been living under the background of "expanding enrollment every year", perhaps forgetting that all this has costs, and dormitory tension is actually one of the costs. When the enrollment expansion reaches a certain scale, the dormitory can't bear it, and students can only choose to rent a house, the cost of reading will rise sharply, thus slowing down the enrollment expansion, which is itself a sample of "market regulation".
Of course, even if there is a reason for this phenomenon, it does not mean that people should let it go. After all, the total number of graduate students in China is not sufficient, and it is still necessary to expand the highly educated population. For example, among the newly employed population, the proportion of graduate students in the United States is about 15%, while that in China is less than 1%. On the whole, at present, the number of registered graduate students per thousand people in China is about 2.2, while that in developed countries such as the United States is about 9. All these data show that the enrollment expansion of graduate students is still of lasting significance, and this significance cannot be denied because of the lack of dormitory.
For colleges and universities, we should first express the information and give students full hints. For example, a 2022 graduate student of Hunan University said that the news that the dormitory needed to apply was unknown at first, and it was only told on August 9 that it was not mentioned in the enrollment process. Although this is a unilateral statement, schools should understand that the accommodation fee is not a trivial matter for students, and they should fulfill their full obligation of informing.
In addition, even if the dormitory problem cannot be solved, schools can try to introduce social forces to help students as much as possible in the form of subsidies or scholarships. Of course, it may not be enough for schools to realize subsidies, and financial support from higher authorities is needed. Now that the problem has arisen, relevant departments may wish to conduct in-depth research and provide more feasible solutions.
Dormitory tension is actually a kind of "growing trouble", which is the inevitable result after the enrollment expansion of graduate students. Most colleges and universities in China are public universities, and the society has public welfare expectations. Therefore, how to solve this problem from the perspective of public welfare is a necessary problem for universities. Therefore, I hope that the problem of dormitory tension can be effectively alleviated in the future, and everyone who is interested in learning can be treated well.