With falling birthrates (which shrink the pool of college-age students) and a concurrent rise in the number of universities, today, even with almost 90 % of children attending high school, many universities are facing underenrollment.
特別是出生率連年下降、生源日少，大學卻越來越多，如今高中畢業學生錄取率幾乎已達九成，部分大學甚至已面臨招生不足的窘境。