Such an economy exerts a severely negative influence on universities. Students can't help dropping out of school due to parents' unemployment. Also, students withdraw from school temporarily because they see no prospects of getting a job. The number of enrolled students can decrease abruptly under such conditions.
Graduates have to endure a lot of difficulty due to the serious unemployment situation.
Like a reflex of the actual condition, most of the expected graduates have a pessimistic opinion about their prospect for employ-ment. Among the one hundred and ninety thousand students who graduated from university last February, one hundred and sixty thousand students fell prey to unemployment, excepting a combined thirty thousand students who joined the army or went on to graduate school. The unemployment rate of university graduates, including repeaters who failed to get a job and tried again, stands at no less than 400,000. The unemploy-ment rate has continued to get higher in this phase of companies' restructuring and layoff policies. That graduates become the unemployed is now a naked fact.