64% of Examinees Agree with 'Non-Major Selection'... Analysis Also Shows Advantage for Science Students

Jongno Academy Conducts Survey of 1,104 Examinees on July 7-8

From the 2025 academic year college admissions, the selection of students without a declared major will be significantly expanded, and it was found that 6 out of 10 examinees agree on the necessity of this system. There is also an analysis that if the non-major selection is fully introduced, 'science students' may have an advantage in both regular and early admissions.

Jongro Academy announced on the 19th that it confirmed these findings through a survey conducted on the 7th and 8th with 1,104 examinees preparing for the 2025 college entrance exam regarding the non-major selection.

On December 11 last year, students and parents attending the '2024 College Entrance Regular Admission Preparation Briefing for Students and Parents' held at the Han Kyung-jik Memorial Hall of Soongsil University in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, are listening to the explanation. Photo by Jin-hyung Kang aymsdream@

The survey results showed that 64.5% of examinees responded that the non-major selection, which recruits students without deciding on a university major, is necessary. Among them, 10.1% answered "very necessary," 54.4% answered "necessary," and 35.5% expressed that it was "unnecessary."

The most common reason students thought non-major selection was necessary was "because they can decide their major after experiencing various things at university" (37.7%). On the other hand, the most significant reason for considering it unnecessary was "because the distinction between humanities and sciences is necessary, and basic competencies for each major must be acquired," accounting for 31.0%.

By humanities and sciences, humanities students showed a higher preference for non-major selection. 74.2% of humanities students responded that non-major selection is necessary, which was higher than the 57.7% of science students. Regarding the method of non-major selection, 75.7% answered that students should be selected within the humanities or sciences track, while 24.3% believed selection should be made without track distinction.

The preference for majoring in a different track through non-major admission was higher among humanities students. Among humanities students, 21.3% preferred the science track, but among science students, the preference for the humanities track was low at 4.2%.

Lim Seong-ho, CEO of Jongro Academy, said that if non-major selection is introduced, science students may have an advantage in both early and regular admissions. CEO Lim stated, "In regular admissions, science students may have an advantage because they tend to score higher in the math standardized score of the integrated CSAT," and added, "In early admissions, since there is a strong concentration of science students in frontline high schools, it is estimated that there are more science students with high school grades than humanities students."