During the Anti-Japanese War, the living standard of the faculty and the students in universities in the rear areas was rapidly declined due to wartime inflation, but they were not the "destitute class" yet, and the key elements that determine the living standard of faculty and students were also changed comparing to the pre-war period. Faculty’s distribution of the living standard before the war was closely related to their ranks, titles, and degrees, while their distribution of the living standard during wartime in the rear areas was constrained by many factors including salary, part-time job, and family burden. Prior to the war, the majority of university students were coming from middle-class families, and the distribution of the living standard on campus was "olive-shaped"; however, during the wartime, the distribution of the living standard in university campuses in the rear areas was poles apart: the rich and the poor students, and the poor students became the majority. During the wartime, the changes in faculty and students’ distribution of the living standard in universities in the rear areas were not only constrained by objective factors but also influenced by related educational policies of the Nanjing National Government.