Why Was Graduate Employment Rate Required in the Past

The Ministry of Education requires that student employment rates must reach a certain threshold (I recall it being 85% or higher); otherwise, school funding will be cut, enrollment numbers reduced, programs shut down, or even entire institutions closed. Taking funding cuts as an example: if the employment rate falls below the Ministry's required proportion, the school's allocation decreases by 2,000,000.00 yuan for every 0.1 percentage point shortfall.

It's still like this now, though who knows about the future. Meanwhile, regular faculty members with tenure at universities in remote areas typically take home around 5,000 yuan per month.

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The author is a university professor who has been working in higher education for about a year.