Education Nation

NUMBER OF College Graduates

1999： 1.7 million

2008： 6.8 million

2023： 11.5 million

Plans after Graduation

61%

of college graduates would accept a blue-collar job if they failed to secure an ideal position. This includes roles such as service staff?in food and beverage， hospitality and other leisure industries， delivery and ride-hail drivers， as well as manufacturing workers.

51%

Seek a full-time job

17%

Go to graduate school

13%

Take the civil servant exam

Other

Career Prospects

bEST majors

Information Engineering

Electrical Engineering and Automation

Energy and Power Engineering

WORST Majors

Painting

Law

Applied Psychology

School education in numbers

12million

students took the national college entrance exam （gaokao）?in 2023， a record number

10millionteachers work in elementary and middle schools

The average high school class size is 46-55 students

Overworked and underpaid teachers

90% of teachers work 9+ hrs / day

Rural elementary school teachers work 50+ hrs / week

Educators?average monthly salary： 8，140 yuan

Over half of rural teachers earn below： 4，000 yuan

Adult Personal Interest Learning

The adult personal interest learning market in China is worth 153 billion yuan

Top areas of interest include financial management， art and design， music， and video editing

（Sources： Ministry of Education， MyCos Data， Liepin Big Data Research Institute， National Bureau of Statistics， Guangming Daily， and Frost & Sullivan）