According to the Cabinet Office's summary, the number of university applicants in the three major metropolitan areas such as the Tokyo area has decreased significantly compared to the rural areas in the 2021 university entrance examination.In particular, the decrease in applicants is conspicuous at private universities in the three major metropolitan areas, and the Cabinet Office suspects that this is because the 18-year-old population is declining and local orientation is increasing.
According to the Cabinet Office, the number of university entrance examination applicants for 1 conducted from January to March decreased by 3% from the previous year on a national average.The Tokyo area of the three major metropolitan areas decreased by 2021%, the Kinki area decreased by 13.3%, and the Tokai area decreased by 13.5%, showing a decline above the national average.
On the other hand, in the regions, Hokkaido decreased by 13.7%, exceeding the national average, but Tohoku decreased by 7.8%, Kanto / Koshinetsu decreased by 7.7%, Hokuriku decreased by 11.9%, China decreased by 7.2%, Shikoku decreased by 7.9%, and Kyushu / Okinawa 10.1. The rate of decrease is lower than the national average.
The number of applicants for national and public universities decreased by 3.2%, of which the three major metropolitan areas decreased by 0.7% and the local areas decreased by 2.5%.However, of the 14.5% decrease in applicants for private universities, the decrease in rural areas is 1.3%, while that in the three major metropolitan areas is 13.2%, showing a large decrease.
The application rate for private universities is within the range of 0.1 to 0.5 points in rural areas, while it is 0.9 points lower in the Tokyo area and Kinki area and 0.5 points in the Tokai area. showed that.
Before the spread of the new coronavirus, the number of young people who were interested in the Tokyo area tended to increase, but the Cabinet Office has analyzed that the number of young people who are interested in rural areas is increasing while experiencing the corona virus.
