The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Private School Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation will impose a penalty on private universities operating private universities nationwide to reduce private school subsidies to private universities with an enrollment capacity of over 2019%, which was planned from 100. I have notified that I will not do it for the time being.It is explained that the overcapacity has been stopped to some extent.

 According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the notice is a joint name of Yoshinori Murata, Dean of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Higher Education Bureau, and Atsushi Seike, President of the Japan Private School Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will reduce the private school subsidy to private universities with more than 2019% enrollment capacity from 100, while increasing it to 95-100% in order to curb the enrollment capacity of large and medium-sized universities in the three major metropolitan areas. It was supposed to implement measures.

 However, as a preliminary step, the criteria for non-granting private school subsidies were gradually tightened over the three years from 2016, and the enrollment capacity sufficiency rate of private universities increased from 3% in 2014 in the three major metropolitan areas. Some results were seen, such as 106.22% in FY2018 and 103.18% in other regions to 95.87%.
The number of enrollees in the three major metropolitan areas, which exceeds the enrollment capacity of private universities with a capacity of 4,000 or more, has decreased from 2014 in 2 to 7,479 in 2018.For this reason, the penalty reduction measures will be postponed for the time being, and only the increase measures will be implemented.

 Except for the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, universities with a sufficiency rate of 90 to 100% are subject to the increase measures, and the standard amount of subsidy increases depending on the sufficiency rate of each faculty.The breakdown is that the sufficiency rate is 95-100%, up 4%, and 90-94%, up 2%.

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Regarding the handling of ordinary expenses subsidies for private universities, etc. related to capacity management after 31 (Notice)

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