Survey: 84% of university students find life fulfilling
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Students attend a class while maintaining social distancing at Kansai University in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, in December 2021.
11:47 JST, September 14, 2022
More than 80% of university students find their student life “fulfilling,” a level last seen before the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a nationwide survey.
However, third-year students had the lowest level of satisfaction, as the pandemic prevented them from going to campus when they first entered university.
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The survey was conducted online in July by the National Federation of University Co-operative Associations (NFUCA). A total of 5,225 university students across Japan responded.
The percentage who said their student lives were “fulfilling” was 84.3%, up 29 points from last summer and close to the 88.8% in the survey conducted in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic.
By year, 88.1% of freshmen were satisfied, 84% of sophomores, and 81.7% of fourth through sixth-year students. Juniors recorded the lowest rate at 76.1%.
As for the number of days students went to school per week, five days drew the most responses at 45.9%, up 28.7 points from the same period last year. Classes were “entirely in person” for 29.5% of the answering students, followed by “90% in person” for 22.1% and “80% in person” for 12.5%.
A survey conducted in summer 2020 found that 28% of then freshmen — who are currently juniors — had made no friends since entering college. The latest poll recorded that no friends had been made by 2.1% of freshmen, 2.8% of sophomores, 4.8% of juniors and 2.2% of fourth through sixth-year college students.
“Starting this school year, the implementation of in-person classes has increased to a level close to before the pandemic, and students are going to campus more often, so they seem to be more satisfied with their campus life,” a representative of NFUCA said.
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