Be vigilant! 9 major misunderstandings in choosing majors in the college entrance examination, candidates' parents must avoid them in advance!

Jiqiao College of Higher Education Planning and Research Institute 2024-04-22 15:00

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The choice of major is self-evident in the importance of volunteering for the college entrance examination. However, before the college entrance examination, many candidates and parents rarely take the time to understand the information of the major, so that there will be some misunderstandings when choosing a major, such as: a good major with a high employment rate, a popular major must be a good major, and the majors of famous schools are all good majors.

Xiaoqiao sorted out the 9 misunderstandings that are easy to fall into when choosing a major in the college entrance examination, the sooner you know these misunderstandings, the better, and you must avoid them before filling in the volunteers!

Is a major with a "high employment rate" a good major?

It is undeniable that one of the ultimate goals of choosing a major in college is to prepare for future employment.

However, when using the "employment rate" as a reference basis for choosing a major, we cannot judge it based on the number of employment rates alone.

Nowadays, the employment rate of college graduates is relatively broad, whether the student intends to start his own business or become a freelancer in the future, as long as the student leaves the school with a future employment destination, it is regarded as the statistical basis for the employment rate.

As the employment situation becomes more and more severe, many universities also include the number of graduate students in the employment rate, which is commonly referred to as "hidden employment".

Therefore, the number of employees counted by universities includes not only the number of graduates who actually participate in the workforce, but also the number of people who are admitted to graduate school, study abroad, start their own businesses, and work flexibly.

This employment rate figure does not represent the actual situation of graduates participating in the workforce, and there is a certain gap between it and the actual positioning of people's employment rate in various majors.

In addition, candidates and parents also need to pay attention to the following when referring to the employment rate data:

✅ It does not mean that a certain university has a high employment rate for all majors;

✅ It does not mean that the employment rate of a certain major is relatively high, which means that the employment rate of this major in any school is high;

✅ Just because a major has a high employment rate does not mean that the quality of employment for graduates is high.

Therefore, when referring to the employment rate, candidates and parents can refer to the employment rate of the target major of the target institution in the past three years, as well as the employment situation and employment destination.

Is a "popular major" a good major?

One of the most frequently asked questions from candidates and parents is, "What is the hottest major right now?"

There are many candidates and parents who choose to fill in the college entrance examination major according to this way of thinking. The so-called "hot" majors are those majors that have a high degree of attention from parents and a high degree of enthusiasm from candidates. For example, finance, foreign trade, accounting, computer, etc., have been hot "hot" majors for many years.

The reason why "popular" majors are favored by the parents of candidates is mainly because candidates and parents believe that their employment rate is relatively high, and the corresponding employment industry environment is good and the treatment is high.

However, in the actual enrollment process, the reason for the popularity of "popular" majors is more due to the number of enrollment plans. Because most colleges and universities in the country have opened the above majors, the number of enrollment plans is so large, it will inevitably be spectacular in the number of applicants, as if it is "hot".

But the opening of such "hot" majors has also caused employment pressure on graduates in four or five years - "oversupply, employment crash".

The number of enrollment plans for "popular" majors far exceeds the demand for talents in the social market, and when it comes to finding a job, it can only be "hot employment" for some people.

It is not difficult to understand that among the majors with low employment rates, there will be majors such as law, economics, and business administration that have been "hot" for many years.

Popular majors are not equal to high employment rates, and popular majors are not static, in the past, normal majors have always been the traditional "unpopular", many people do not want to be teachers, unwilling to apply for the normal class, but with the improvement of teachers' treatment in recent years and the relative stability of the profession, there have been many candidates competing to apply for the normal major.

With the continuous improvement of the role of energy strategy in the national economy, the "agriculture, forestry land and mineral oil" that has been in the "cold palace" is also gradually heating up.

Is the major corresponding to a "high-paying career" a good major?

Both "future" and "money" are one of the criteria for many parents to choose majors for their children, and they often refer to some "high-paying career rankings" on the Internet to screen majors by career positioning.

While we encourage candidates and parents to consider careers when choosing a major, parents should be reminded that a major is not exactly the same as a career, and it is not necessarily what kind of major you have studied in college or what kind of work you will do in the future.

In terms of actual employment, there are not many people in today's society who can directly engage in the work that corresponds to their majors in college, and there are not many people who can get in place at one time.

Most of the majors and occupations are closely related to engineering majors (such as civil engineering, aerospace) and medical majors, even if these majors, the matching rate of 40% is already very high, and the career orientation of most majors is vague.

The name of the profession looks good is a good major?

There was once a candidate who was admitted to the information and computer science major of a second-batch enrollment college in Shenyang with a score of more than 30 points higher than the first batch of admissions because he did not fill in the first batch of volunteers, but he dropped out after the first semester.

This student has very good grades in physics and mathematics, and he wants to study computer science and become an IT elite in the future, so although he got "high scores and low scores" in school, he felt fortunate to be admitted to his favorite major.

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, calculation methods, probability theory, etc.

Generally speaking, the difference between it and pure mathematics is that it studies how to calculate faster, pays attention to calculation skills, and pays attention to how to solve problems with mathematical methods.

Faced with an unsatisfactory university and a major he didn't like, he had to drop out and repeat his studies and enter the ranks of "senior high school students".

The above-mentioned candidate is taking it for granted from the literal perspective of the major, and thinks that the information and computing science major is about computer science.

There are many similar majors that are easy to misunderstand and misunderstand, such as the information resource management major, which was actually developed from the renaming of the archives major.

Many of the new "new majors" with fashionable professional names are actually some of the previous majors according to the needs of the times and the development of the profession with new packaging, with "new bottles" filled with "old wine", candidates and parents must not "judge people by appearance", must have an in-depth understanding of what the major really learns, and what kind of talents are cultivated.

In the face of a large number of colleges and majors, if you wait until the end of the college entrance examination to find and determine from scratch, the time is simply not enough, so candidates and parents need to pay more attention to this information.

Are the majors of prestigious universities good majors?

There are also many parents of candidates who have this idea: "As long as you can go to a famous university, it doesn't matter which major you study, all majors in a famous university are good majors." ”

In fact, not all majors in prestigious universities are advantageous majors, and not all of them are of the highest level in the industry.

For example, if you aspire to become a psychologist, choosing Beijing Normal University may be better than studying at Tsinghua University.

In addition, due to the "merger" fever and "name change" that prevailed a few years ago, many "new" schools were born one after another, and many of them were merged into three or five ordinary colleges and universities, and naturally many of them merged into the professional strength of the university.

The majors of famous universities are not all good majors, and some schools are not very famous, but the strength of some of the characteristic majors in these universities should not be underestimated. For example, Wuhan University of Technology's "Materials Science and Engineering" major is tied with Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Therefore, candidates and parents can not only stare at the word "famous brand", it is normal to have a famous school complex, everyone wants to be excellent, but can not blindly follow the crowd, look at the fame and pay attention to reality, candidates and parents still have to choose the school and major that suits them according to their own comprehensive situation, if the comprehensive ranking of a school is not very high, but one of the majors is very good, such a major is not low.

Is a major with a "high admission score" a good major?

The admission scores of various majors are high and low, and the majors with high admission scores in colleges and universities are basically what we usually call "popular" majors, because most of the candidates and parents have the herd mentality of "can't waste scores" in the process of volunteering.

If you get a score of 680 and can apply for the most popular computer major, you will never fill in the physics you like better.

This kind of thinking is common among candidates and parents, but filling in the college entrance examination is not a business, paying attention to the reciprocity of money and goods, and candidates should choose a major, but also take into account their own interests and ideals and aspirations.

If you don't have a solid foundation because you're not interested in this major after going to college, then no matter how good a major is, it won't mean much to your life development.

In fact, the admission score of the major can only reflect the level of application heat, and cannot be used as the basis for judging the quality of the major.

Is a child's favorite major a good major?

In recent years, parents have paid more attention to the college entrance examination volunteers, and they have become more open-minded about their children's major choices, no longer blindly pursuing "high salary fever", but respecting their children's wishes: "As long as the child likes it and is interested in learning, it is a good major!"

But does what a child likes really have to be a good major? There is one such candidate, who is particularly fond of surfing the Internet and playing online games, so when filling in the volunteers, his parents and himself naturally chose the computer major.

However, when he arrived at school, he encountered learning disabilities, mainly because he did not learn math and physics well in high school, so it was difficult for him to keep up with the progress in computer science professional classes.

Liking the Internet and playing games does not mean that you love computer science, let alone being a software expert.

In the case that the child does not have a clear professional interest tendency, and the college entrance examination review time is tight, it is very important for the candidate to effectively intervene and help.

Is it a good major in this school and 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 ace major or characteristic major of the school, and we usually use "key disciplines" or "national characteristic major construction points" to understand the advantages and characteristic majors of a university.

The same major can vary greatly from school to school. This difference is mainly reflected in two aspects: on the one hand, there is a difference in professional strength. Due to the different school history, faculty, teaching hardware and software, and social reputation, the same major occupies different positions in different schools, and the employment rate and employment level are also different.

If this major belongs to the fist discipline of this university, even if it is "unpopular", there must be a market, and this "unpopular" good major often has a long history of running schools and has a high degree of recognition in the industry.

On the other hand, the same major may be very different in different schools in terms of courses and development directions. For example, the same "mining engineering" major is in the field of coal mining at China University of Mining and Technology (Xuzhou), but in Central South University, it is biased towards the field of non-ferrous metals.

Therefore, compared with the same major in different schools, we should not only look at the status of the major in the professional field, but also look at the connotation of the major itself, which mainly refers to the training objectives, core courses, employment and research fields of the major.

Is the recommended major a good major?

For most candidates, they will not spend time to understand the major before the college entrance examination, so they basically have no concept of the major, and there are very few children with clear professional intentions: "I don't know what major I like, I don't know what I want to do in the future...... When it comes to filling in the voluntary choice of major, I can often only follow the advice of my parents.

Many parents have a relatively simple and blind understanding of majors, and their channels are mainly based on reference employment rates, rankings, and the recommendations of relatives and friends, and finally return to the misunderstanding that "hot" majors, "high-salary" majors, and "high-employment rate" majors are good majors.

Choosing a major requires foresight and insight, and parents and friends are often blinded by their own experience, and if parents are overly persistent and strong about past experiences, especially successful experiences, they will limit their children's future development to the scope of their imagination and experience.

What is a "good major" is always changing with the times, and the recommended major is not necessarily the most suitable major for candidates.

How to choose the right school and major for your child?

Dean Zhao Jing once wrote an article on the issue of choosing a major, combined with candidates' grades, family and other factors, to help you sort out the basic ideas of choosing a major and choosing a university.

Click to read the full article→:Have you entered the inertial thinking of undergraduate candidates choosing majors?

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