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University applications for 2012 down 9%
- ColinWright 15y agoSelective/incomplete reporting at its best. According to this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8846236/Universities-see-40pc-fall-in-soft-subject-applications.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/884... applications for "Applications for 'mass communication and documentation' subjects, such as media studies and PR, have been hit the hardest, falling 40.6 per cent compared to this time last year. "Education courses have also suffered, with applications dropping by 30 per cent while interest in creative arts has dropped by 27.1 per cent and business and administration studies by 26.1per cent." Medicine and dentistry have had almost no reduction, ditto Cambridge and Oxford. With the "soft" subjects taking a 40% hit, perhaps maths and the sciences are not so badly affected. Digging into the details will be interesting - it's a shame we can't trust the BBC to do that.
- brd 15y agoI totally agree that this is lack luster reporting but I imagine it may spark an interesting conversation seeing as many of us have expected the "education bubble" to pop and this may be an early indicator of it. There have been no reports yet on US universities other than Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management stating that they've seen a similar decline in their MBA program. I fully expect to see a lot more of these sorts of figures in the future but I would be pleasantly surprised if they were paired with a surge in enrollment in math and science degrees.