The School of Journalism and Communication at China’s elite Tsinghua University will stop enrolling undergraduates and shift its focus to graduate education beginning this year, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported Friday.

The university announced on its public account on social app WeChat that the journalism school plans to expand its enrollment quotas for graduate students. As of January 2017 — the most recent year such data was disclosed — there were 275 undergraduates, 218 master’s students, and 80 doctoral students in the journalism school.

Tsinghua’s announcement also said that the coronavirus pandemic has “accelerated adjustments to strategic disciplines,” and that apart from teaching reporting and other journalism skills, the school’s top priority moving forward would be to research and respond to “global public opinion,” as well as “external environmental shifts.” (Image: People Visual)