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CHAPTER 3: RECRUITMENT INTO TEACHING
large number of admied students in the Foreign Language Department has to do with the various units
within the Department that conduct their own classes in English, Russian, Chinese, German, French,
Korean, or Japanese language teaching.
3.4.2. Enrollment Rate
The enrollment rate, measured in terms of the rao of those who were admied to those who actually
enrolled, is irrelevant in the context of Mongolia. Students who were accepted are automacally enrolled
in the degree program. Even though this parcular indicator is widely used in other countries, it does
not provide any relevant informaon about the determinaon of applicants to actually enroll in teacher
educaon studies. For example, all of the 348 students who were accepted into the Department of
Teacher Educaon also enrolled in that degree program (see Table 10). The same paern applies to the
other two departments that were examined in detail: the number of enrolled students is idencal to the
number of admied students.
As menoned earlier, the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) program in educaon experienced a surge in enrollment
in 2006/07 and 2007/08 (not only at MSUE but also countrywide) as a result of major reforms in the
educaon sector, notably the expansion of general educaon and the improvement of teacher salaries.
In 2004/05, B.A. students in teacher educaon accounted for 7.3 percent of students in all B.A. programs
(N=11,167). Six years later, in 2010/11, every seventh B.A. student (13.8 percent) was a student enrolled
in teacher educaon.
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Figure 10: Enrollment in B.A. in Educaon Programs, All Universies, 2004-2010
25,000
20,000
15.000
10.000
5.000
Sources: EMIS data.
3.4.3 Completion Rate
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2004/05
11.167
2005/06
11.902
2006/07
14.227
2007/08
17.314
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
20,989
The compleon rate was calculated by comparing the number of students who enrolled in the academic
year 2006/07 with the number of students who completed their studies four years later in 2009/10.
Similarly, the compleon or survival rate for the academic year 2010/11 was obtained by comparing the
number of students who were admied in 2007/08 with the number of students who graduated from
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