From October to November 2022, the National Federation of University Co-operative Associations (National University Co-operative Federation) will open master's programs (first term of doctoral program), doctoral programs (second term of doctoral program), and specialists enrolled in national, public and private universities nationwide. The 10th National Survey of Lifestyles of Graduate School Students was conducted for degree students.Thirty-four co-ops nationwide participated in this survey, and 11 valid responses were received.
According to the survey, the average research time per week is 1 hours.Research hours are 36.7 hours for liberal arts, 33.8 hours for science and technology, and 37.0 hours for medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy.
The average number of school attendance days is 4.4 days, a slight increase from the previous survey (average 4.2 days).It has become clear that graduate students are attending college even during the coronavirus crisis.Humanities students average 3.8 days, science and engineering students average 4.5 days, and medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical students average 4.8 days.While science and technology are returning to pre-coronavirus levels, the 2018 survey found that the number of hours spent in humanities was 4.3 days, suggesting that the home-based research style has become established after the pandemic.
When asked about the impact of COVID-33.2 on their research activities, XNUMX% of respondents chose “no impact” on their research activities. In "With Corona", the use of online tools and the establishment of research methods that take measures against infection have progressed, and many people are doing well in their research in the corona wreck.In addition, many of the respondents to this survey were enrolled in graduate schools after the COVID-XNUMX crisis, and it is believed that some of them have made research plans that take into account the impact of the COVID-XNUMX crisis from the beginning.
Issues raised were "changes in conference format" at 41.1%, "decrease in exchanges of opinions among graduate students" at 23.7%, and "difficulty in communicating with researchers outside the university" at 18.2%.Although it does not have a large impact on daily research activities, it can be seen that opportunities to interact with people of the same academic background at one's own university or other universities are decreasing.
The self-payment of research expenses has increased from the previous time, and it seems that the reason is that the impact of the corona disaster has decreased and research activities have increased.On the other hand, when looking at the cost of books in the last six months, a large percentage of science and engineering graduate students and medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy graduate students answered that they spent 0 yen, so laboratories have rules that do not allow individuals to bear research expenses. It can be seen that there are manyHowever, from the free description, "I feel unfair because the handling of the cost of attending the conference is different between laboratories. I would like to unify the handling within the same graduate school." (Woman/home), “When presenting results at academic conferences, we need to pay academic conference admission fees, academic conference participation fees, travel and accommodation expenses, and this puts considerable pressure on research costs. (Students without research expenses pay their own entrance and participation fees, and travel and accommodation expenses are research expenses of their supervisors.) In the end, it depends on the status of research funding acquisition of the supervisors. I think there are cases where the research activities of students are restricted.”
The National Survey of Graduate Students' Lives is a nationwide survey of the lives of graduate students, including research life, number of days at school, income/expenditure, part-time jobs, scholarships, burden of research expenses, worries and stress, career paths and job hunting. Since 2016, it has been held once every two years.The summary was analyzed and written by a current graduate student of the National University Co-op's Graduate Student Committee, and is valuable in understanding the reality of the lives of graduate students, who are often said to be ``not sure what their lives are like''. It is an investigation.
