Over the past 7 years, the number of graduate students has increased by nearly 70%, and the proportion of undergraduate students from "Double First-Class" universities pursuing further studies has exceeded 40%, with more than half of them continuing their education.

According to the statistics of Qintai, a higher education data and content service provider in February of this year, among the 101 "Double First-Class" universities included in the statistics, at least 12 of them had a postgraduate enrollment rate of over 70% for the 2024 undergraduate graduates, while 46 universities had an undergraduate enrollment rate of over 50%. In other words, more than 40% of the "Double First-Class" universities had an undergraduate enrollment rate of over 50%. Among them, ShanghaiTech University, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University had a postgraduate enrollment rate of over 80% for the 2024 undergraduate graduates, while Southern University of Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Beijing Institute of Technology, Tongji University, Nanjing University, Northwestern Polytechnical University had a postgraduate enrollment rate of over 70%.