According to a survey by the National Federation of University Co-ops, the number of university students who received some kind of scholarship in 2018 accounted for 30.5% of the total, decreasing for the seventh consecutive year.7% of students are worried about the repayment of loan-type scholarships, which is also considered to be one of the reasons for the decrease.
調査は2018年10～11月、全国30大学の学生1万980人からインターネット上で得た回答を集計した。内訳は男子学生5,895人、女子学生4,604人、無回答481人で、自宅生が5,245人、下宿生が5,735人を占めている。
According to it, the breakdown of scholarship recipients is 24.7% for home students and 34.7% for boarding house students.The overall receiving rate peaked in 2011 and has continued to decline, but the number of home students has decreased for the seventh consecutive year and the number of boarding students has decreased for the sixth consecutive year.
The average monthly salary is 1 yen, 5 yen for home students and 7,140 yen for boarding house students.The types of scholarships are 5% for Japan Student Services Organization loan-type scholarships, 2,860% for non-Japan Student Services Organization loan-type scholarships, 5% for Japan Student Services Organization benefit-type scholarships, and university and foundation benefits. Type scholarship is 9,090%.The percentage of students who received only loan-type benefits was 25.4%, a decrease of 1.3 points from the previous year, while the number of students who received only benefit-type scholarships was 0.9%, showing a slight increase over the past three years.
The scholarships were used for 16.6% of university payments such as tuition fees and 15.0% of living expenses such as food and housing expenses.Regarding the repayment of loan-type scholarships, 74.4% answered that they were "anxious", and 24.4% of them answered that they were "always anxious".
reference:[National University Co-op Association] Summary report of the 54th Student Life Survey
