"I'm Quitting Medical School"... Where They Head Next After Dropping Out

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"I am going to quit medical school."

There was a common trait among a majority of students who dropped out of medical schools last year.

Survey results showed that 8 out of 10 of these medical students came from regional medical schools.

When an admissions hagwon (prep academy) analyzed official disclosures from Academy Info, the number of students who dropped out across 39 medical schools nationwide last year totaled 383.

A dropout refers to students who leave school midway due to voluntary withdrawal, failure to register, or failure to return.

Among them, 301 were students attending medical schools outside the greater Seoul area.

Dropouts in Seoul stood at 48, while Gyeonggi and Incheon accounted for just 34.

The number of dropouts from non-metropolitan medical schools has been on an upward trend every year.

What is the reason?

Many analyses suggest that non-metropolitan medical students are heading back to medical schools in the greater Seoul area.

The admissions industry believes that as regional talent quotas expand, top-tier students in regional areas are first entering local medical schools and then increasingly re-entering medical schools in the capital area later on.
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