January 7, 2005
Chinese College Enrollments Surge to Record Level
A record 20 million students enrolled in Chinese colleges in 2004, giving the country the largest college-student population in the world.
Enrollment rose sharply in the fall, with 4.2 million freshmen accepted by colleges around the country -- double the number of students in the 1998 freshman class.
Chinese high schools graduated 5.2 million students in 2004, but almost 7 million applicants took the national college-entrance exam last summer, a number that included
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