The Ministry of Education announced Thursday that China will enroll about 270,000 students in master's or doctoral degree programs next year, approximately 35 percent more than this year.
Next year's growing numbers of college and university graduates will be the first large wave since China enlarged enrollment in 1999, and more students are expected to apply for graduate study, sources with the ministry said.
Entrance exams will also be altered for better selection of high-caliber students and more students will be permitted to further their study without undergoing examinations.
(Xinhua News Agency November 8, 2002)
