Yokohama National University will stop recruiting law school students from 2019.This is the first time that the recruitment of national universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area has been suspended because it was judged that improvement could not be expected due to the continued decline such as the number of enrolled students falling below 2018% in 40.
According to Yokohama National University, since its establishment in 2004, the Law School has played a certain role in training legal professionals, including 169 people who have passed the bar examination, with the support of the Kanagawa Prefectural Bar Association.In the first year, there were 50 applicants for a capacity of 970, and 2007 were enrolled in 59, but the number of enrollments has continued to decrease since then, and the capacity has fallen below the capacity since 2013. There is.
In 2018, the number of enrollees was only 25 compared to the capacity of 9, and the enrollment capacity sufficiency rate dropped to a record low of 36%.It was also the fourth lowest number among law schools nationwide, and it was also found that roughly half of the successful applicants went to law schools of other schools.
The faculty members themselves went to other universities and tried to break through by holding briefing sessions for undergraduate students, but there was no visible effect and it was decided that recruitment had to be stopped.The 38 enrolled students will continue until the end of the course, and the support system for graduates will continue for the time being.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, there were 74 law schools nationwide at the maximum, but while the decrease in enrollment is becoming more serious, recruitment is being suspended one after another. There were 2018 universities opened in 59, of which only 39 were recruited.Due to the suspension of recruitment of Yokohama National University, the number of schools opened in Kanagawa Prefecture will be zero.
