2019年1月19、20日、全国で開かれた2019年度大学入試センター試験の最終志願者が57万6,830人になったことが、大学入試センターの集計で分かった。前年度より5,841人少なく、4年ぶりの志願者減となったが、浪人生に限れば難関私立大学が入学定員を厳格化した影響を受け、前年度を2,734人上回っている。
大学入試センターによると、志願者の内訳は現役生が46万4,950人、浪人生ら既卒者が10万6,682人、高卒認定などその他が5,198人。18歳人口の減少などから現役生の比率が80.6％と前年度を0.7ポイント下回ったのに対し、既卒者は18.5％と前年度より0.7ポイント増えた。
The increase in the number of graduates is thought to be due to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology tightening the standards for reducing private school subsidies for overcapacity for large-scale private universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the Kansai area as a measure to reduce the number of applicants for local universities.The amount of private school subsidy reaches billions of yen a year at a large university, but in 2019 it will be zero if the number of enrolled students exceeds 1.10 times the capacity. In the 2018 entrance examination, Ritsumeikan University has reduced the number of successful applicants by about 4,000, and Waseda University has reduced the number of successful applicants by about 2,000.
The number of universities participating in the center test is 82 national, 90 public, and 531 private, for a total of 703 schools, an increase of 6 from the previous year.There are a total of 13 junior colleges, 136 public and 149 private, two fewer than the previous year.
Among active students, the active application rate, which indicates those who applied for the center test, was 0.6%, which is 44.0 points lower than the previous year.However, it is the second highest number when compared after 1990, when the center test started.
