An analysis revealed that more than half of the admitted students in the humanities majors of major universities in Seoul for the 2025 academic year are science students. In 21 departments, all admitted students were science students.
On the 15th, Jongno Academy analyzed the announcement from the college admission information portal 'Where is it?' and examined the proportion of subjects chosen in the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) mathematics section for 340 humanities majors at 17 major universities in Seoul for the 2025 academic year.
As a result, 55.6% chose 'calculus' or 'geometry' in the CSAT mathematics section. The admissions industry reports that calculus and geometry are primarily chosen by science students, while humanities students mainly choose 'probability and statistics.' Calculus and geometry have a higher maximum standard score compared to the probability and statistics chosen by many humanities students, making them more advantageous for admission.
At Hanyang University, the admission rate for science hopefuls among humanities majors was analyzed to be 87.1%, the highest among the universities studied. Following were Sogang University at 86.6%, Konkuk University at 71.9%, Seoul City University at 66.9%, Sungkyunkwan University at 61.0%, Chung-Ang University at 53.8%, Yonsei University at 50.3%, and Kyunghee University at 46.6%.
There were also instances where all admitted students were science students, despite being humanities majors. This includes 21 departments across 17 universities, such as the Department of Child and Family Studies at Yonsei University, the Free Major Program at Sungkyunkwan University, the Humanities-Based Free Major Program at Sogang University, and the Information Systems Department (Business) at Hanyang University.
Seoul National University and Korea University did not disclose the admission rates by mathematics elective subjects, so they were excluded from this survey.
Since the introduction of the integrated CSAT in the 2022 academic year, students who choose calculus or geometry have been receiving higher standard scores than those who choose probability and statistics, even with the same raw scores. This has led to the phenomenon of so-called 'invasion of humanities' where science students enter humanities majors.