01 "hot majors"
Is it a good major?
One of the most frequently asked questions every year is: "what major is the most popular now?"
According to this way of thinking, there are many examinees and parents who choose to fill in the major of college entrance examination. The so-called "hot" majors are those with high attention from parents and high enthusiasm of candidates. For example, finance, foreign trade, accounting, computer, etc. have been hot "hot" majors for many years.
The reason why the "hot" major is favored by the parents of examinees is that the examinees and their parents think that their employment rate is relatively high, the corresponding employment industry environment is good, and the treatment is high.
But in the actual enrollment process, "hot" majors are more popular because of the number of enrollment plans. Because most colleges and universities across the country have opened the above majors, so many enrollment plans, it is bound to be spectacular in the number of applicants, just like "hot".
But the opening of this "hot" major has also caused employment pressure for graduates four or five years later - "supply exceeds demand, employment crashes".
When "hot" majors enter for the examination, the number of enrollment plans is far more than the talent demand of the social market, "hot" majors can only be "hot jobs" for some people when they are looking for jobs.
It is not difficult to understand that among the majors with low employment rate, there will be e-commerce, international economy and trade, law, economics, business administration and other majors that have been "hot selling" for many years.
Popular majors are not equal to high employment rate, and popular majors are not immutable. In the past, normal majors have been the traditional "cold door". Many people do not want to be teachers and are unwilling to apply for normal majors. However, with the improvement of teachers' treatment and the relative stability of the profession in recent years, many candidates have begun to compete for normal majors.
As the role of energy strategy in the national economy continues to improve, the "agriculture, forestry, geology and mineral oil" which used to be in the "cold palace" is also gradually warming up.
02 major with high employment rate
Is it a good major?
It is undeniable that one of the ultimate goals of choosing a major in university is to prepare for the future employment. The answer is yes whether to consider employment factors when filling in the college entrance examination!
But when we use "employment rate" as the reference for choosing majors, we can't judge only by the number of employment rate.
Different from the graduates in the past planned economy period, they need to obtain the registration certificate of the employing unit to be considered as employment. Now the statistical caliber of the employment rate of university graduates is relatively broad. No matter whether the students plan to start their own business or do freelance work in the future, as long as the students provide the school with a future employment direction when they leave the school, they are regarded as the statistical basis of the employment rate.
With the employment situation becoming more and more serious, the number of postgraduate candidates continues to increase. Many universities also include the number of postgraduate candidates in the employment rate, which is commonly known as "hidden employment".
Therefore, the number of employees counted by the university includes not only the number of graduates actually taking part in the work, but also the number of graduates taking part in the postgraduate entrance examination, studying abroad, starting their own businesses and flexible employment.
This figure of employment rate does not represent the actual situation of graduates' participation in work, and there is a certain gap between it and people's actual positioning of various professional employment rates.
In addition, when examinees and parents refer to the employment rate data, they need to note that: not high employment rate of a university means high employment rate of all majors in the University; not high employment rate of a major, which means high employment rate in any school; not high employment rate of a major, which means high employment rate of graduates The quality of the industry is very high.
03 major with high admission score
Is it a good major?
The major with high and low admission scores is basically the so-called "hot" major, because most examinees and parents have the herd mentality of "can't waste scores" in the process of filling in the application
Think that high score is to apply for the major with high admission score. If you can apply for the most popular financial major with 680 scores, you will never fill in your favorite physics. The best time to admit is to "press the line", so you won't suffer any loss.
This kind of idea is common among examinees and parents, but filling in the college entrance examination is not a business. It pays attention to the equivalence of money and materials. Examinees should choose their major and consider their own interests, hobbies and ideals.
If you don't have a solid foundation because you are not interested in this major after college, no matter how good the major is, it doesn't mean much to your life development.
In fact, the level of professional admission scores can only reflect the level of enrollment enthusiasm, and can not be used as a basis for judging the quality of a major.
For example, bioengineering scores in many schools are among the best, but due to the lack of a better bioengineering industry circle in China, it is difficult to find a job for graduates. Many graduates of bioengineering major in famous universities have to choose to study abroad to "save the country by curve".
04 major corresponding to "high salary occupation"
Is it a good major?
There are both "future" and "money path", which is one of the standards for many parents to choose their children's major. They often refer to some "high salary career rankings" on the Internet to screen their major by career orientation.
Although we also encourage examinees and parents to consider occupation when choosing major, we still need to remind parents that major is not exactly equivalent to occupation, not necessarily what major they have studied in University, and what kind of work they will do in the future.
In the actual employment, there are not many people who can directly engage in the corresponding work with their major in the University, and there are not many people who can get one-time employment.
The major and occupation are closely related to some engineering majors (such as civil engineering, aerospace) and medical majors. Even these majors, the corresponding rate of 40% is very high, and the occupation orientation of most majors is vague.
05 professional name looks good
Is it a good major?
A few years ago, I met a candidate who failed to fill in a batch of volunteers. Finally, he was admitted to the information and computing science major of two batch of enrollment colleges in Shenyang with a score of more than 30 points higher than the line. However, he dropped out after the first semester.
This student has a very good score in physics and mathematics. He wants to study computer science and become an IT elite in the future. So although his high score is low, he is lucky to be admitted to the major he likes.
But after half a semester of reading, he found that this "information and computing science" is not a computer major, but a mathematics major, mainly mastering mathematical analysis, probability theory of calculation methods, etc.
Generally speaking, the difference between it and pure mathematics is that what it studies is how to calculate faster, what it pays attention to is the skills of calculation, how to solve problems with mathematical methods, the computer is only its auxiliary calculation tool, which is far from the computer hardware design and software development envisaged by this student.
In the face of dissatisfied universities and disliked majors, he had to drop out and go back to the "senior four" team.
The above examinee thinks that the major of information and computing science is related to computer.
There are many similar majors that are easy to be misunderstood. For example, biomedical engineering is not a biological science or a medical technology, but an electrical information in engineering.
The main research direction of this major is to use engineering and technical means to study and solve problems related to biology and medicine. After graduation, many enterprises are engaged in the design, manufacturing and research of medical devices.
For example, the major of information resource management is actually developed from the renaming of the major of archives; the major of public service management (normal school) is actually the major of pedagogy.
Many newly added "New Majors" with fashionable professional names are actually some former majors that have changed into new packages according to the needs of the times and the development of the major, and packed "old wine" in "new bottles". Candidates and parents must not "judge people by their appearance". They must have a deep understanding of what they really learn and what kind of talents they cultivate.
Major of famous universities
Are they all good majors?
In the process of guiding the application, we often hear parents say, "as long as you can go to a famous university, it doesn't matter which major you want to study." the camel is bigger than the horse. All the majors in the famous university are good majors. "
In fact, not all majors of famous universities are superior ones, and they are all the highest in the industry.
For example, if you are determined to become a psychologist, choosing Beijing Normal University may be better than going to Tsinghua University.
In addition, due to the popularity of "merging schools" and "changing their names" a few years ago, many "new" schools have been born one after another. Some of them have merged into three or five ordinary universities, and naturally many of them have merged into the general professional strength.
The majors of famous universities are not all good ones, and some of them are not well-known, but some of them have their own characteristics.
For example, the "material science and Engineering" major of Wuhan University of science and technology is in parallel with Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the "Instrument Science and technology" of Zhongbei university is known as "Zhongbei first and Qinghua second".
Therefore, examinees and parents can't just stare at the word "famous brand". It's normal to have a complex of famous schools. Everyone wants to be excellent, but they can't follow the crowd blindly. They should also pay attention to the reality of fame. Examinees and parents should choose their own schools and majors according to their own comprehensive situation. If a school's comprehensive ranking is not very high, but one of them is very good Our school is not low in gold.
It's a good major in this school,
Is it a good major in other schools?
If a major is recognized as a good major of a certain school, it often means that the major is the trump card major or characteristic major of the school.
The same major in different schools may vary greatly. This difference is mainly reflected in two aspects: one is the difference in professional strength. Due to the different school running history, teachers, teaching hardware and software, and social reputation, the position of the same major in different schools is different, and the employment rate and level are also different.
If this major belongs to the key discipline of this university, even if it is "cold", there must be a market. This "cold" good major often has a long history of education and high recognition in the industry, so there will be corresponding units in the industry to specially hold a special job fair for this fist major in the University, so there will be no worry about employment.
On the other hand, the same major in different schools may have different courses and development directions. For example, it is also a major of "mining engineering". In China University of mining and Technology (Xuzhou), it focuses on the field of coal mining, but in Central South University, it focuses on the field of non-ferrous metals. The "biotechnology" of Northwest University of agriculture and forestry science and technology mainly studies the genetic problems of animals and plants, and the "biotechnology" of Jiangnan University mainly studies the genetic problems of animals and plants