What are the major categories of admissions and what are the advantages and disadvantages?
学业桥 2024-04-14 19:00
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In recent years, many colleges and universities have begun to implement the admission and training mode of professional "major category enrollment", especially in many double first-class universities, so what is the major category enrollment? What are the modes of major category enrollment? What should candidates pay attention to when applying for the examination?PART.01 What is the general name of major category enrollment should be according to the discipline category enrollment, which means that colleges and universities will merge the same or similar disciplines, usually the majors of the same department, and enroll students according to one major category. When candidates fill in the volunteers, they can directly fill in the volunteers according to the name of the major category. After candidates are admitted through the general enrollment, they will study the basic courses in the first two years of the undergraduate stage (some are one year), and then choose a specific major in the major included in the major category in the second or third year according to the requirements of the school, their interests, expertise and development direction. In 2001, Peking University launched the "Yuanpei Plan", which is considered to be the beginning of the localization exploration of "large-category enrollment". In the next ten years, prestigious schools have followed suit. More than 80% of the first-class universities have implemented large-category enrollment reforms. For example, in the enrollment majors of a school, the four majors of communication engineering, electronic information engineering, electronic information science and technology, and optoelectronic information science and engineering are unified in electronic information enrollment. PART.02 Three modes of enrollment in major categories
- Enrollment by discipline
This is the form of large-scale enrollment implemented by most colleges and universities. The majors in this enrollment method generally have similar disciplines, and some departments or majors with similar characteristics or the same attributes are combined for enrollment. Wait for the sophomore or junior year to be diverted to a different major for specific professional courses.
- Enrollment by faculty
Colleges and universities that enroll students by department are generally a college or department, and they enroll students according to one or several categories. Students can choose a major within the department after learning and understanding the subject and major, and then combining their interests, strengths, achievements, etc.
- Enrollment is based on the modes of "experimental class" and "experimental class".
There are also some schools that recruit students in the form of "base classes" and "experimental classes", such as the "engineering experimental class" of Peking University and the "engineering experimental class" of Zhejiang University. Of course, not all experimental classes are recruited according to major categories, and there are many colleges and universities that select experimental classes after entering the school. PART.03 The difference between general enrollment and professional enrollment
- The subject areas are different
The names of majors recruited by category are not as detailed as the names of majors, and are generally first-level disciplines or second-level disciplines in a certain subject area.
- Enrollment plans are different
For colleges that enroll students by category, the number of enrollment plans of the school is no longer divided by majors, but to the professional categories that are planned to be enrolled according to the current year. PART.04 The advantages and disadvantages of large-category enrollment are that colleges and universities hope to give students more time to understand university majors, so that students can choose suitable majors according to their own strengths, and create opportunities for students to learn their ideal majors. The advantages of large-category enrollment are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
- Avoid choosing blindness
Enrollment according to major categories is conducive to students to overcome the blindness and limitations of voluntary filling in and obtain greater independent choice. Most students don't know much about the majors of the university, and there is a great blindness when volunteering to fill in. Large-category enrollment allows students to have an in-depth understanding of each major in the first year or two of university study, clarify their subject expertise and development potential, and further combine their interests and abilities to choose their favorite majors.
- Reduce the stress of applying for the exam
As a whole, the enrollment plan has been increased, which is conducive to reducing the pressure of students applying for majors. If the enrollment is separated, if there are only 1-2 students in the enrollment plan of a certain major, many students often dare not fill in, but when the enrollment plan of a large category of multiple majors is increased to 5-10 people, it can meet the professional needs of students to a greater extent, and colleges and universities also get more space when arranging professional plans.
- Cultivating interdisciplinary talents
Large-category enrollment combines large-category training and general education, respects students' individualized choices, and realizes the diversified development of students, which is conducive to the cultivation of compound innovative talents and the display of students' comprehensive ability after entering the society in the future. However, at the same time, some colleges and universities implement the enrollment of large majors, which are mixed and matched with unpopular majors in order to improve the admission score of the school, exposing the following disadvantages of large category enrollment:
- Advantageous majors and disadvantageous majors coexist, and they are diverted to undesirable majors
Universities like to put popular majors and unpopular majors together, or put strong majors and weak majors in one big category to "package admission", and students are easily assigned to unpopular or weak majors they don't like when they are diverted majors. For example, some computer classes include both electronic information, aerospace engineering, cyberspace security, software engineering, artificial intelligence and other popular majors, as well as relatively unpopular material majors.
- I don't understand the major of the diversion, and I don't know how to do it
Some major enrollment majors do not have detailed requirements for the selection of subjects, which will lead to the situation that students may not be able to understand the major courses and graduate smoothly although they meet the requirements of the course selection after being diverted from university. PART.05 Precautions for filling in the major enrollment majors, candidates should consider whether their interests are consistent with the professional curriculum, training goals, and employment prospects. Understand the time and method of major diversion in colleges and universities, and different diversion methods determine the difficulty of students entering a certain major in the future. When filling in the application, you should carefully read the school's enrollment regulations to understand what majors are included in the enrollment category, and the professional settings and training programs of different schools are different, and candidates must carefully study and distinguish them. Source: Network - The End -
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