Whether it is the college entrance examination or the research examination, the major is king, and the criteria for judging the quality of the major are more and more clearly pointing to a goal, that is, the employment rate, the higher the employment rate, the better the major.
Interestingly, according to the statistics of the internationally renowned Max, it is said that China has ten red card majors and ten hot spots.
In other words, the top ten red card majors are the top ten regret majors, these majors are majors with low employment rate, salary and employment satisfaction because of the large amount of unemployment, and the employment rate, salary and employment satisfaction are low.
The top 10 regret majors for undergraduates are:
1. International education of Chinese language
2. Painting
3. Applied Psychology
4. Musical performances
5. Jurisprudence
6. History
7. Chemistry
8. Fine Arts
9. Chinese Language and Literature
10. Business Administration
The top 10 regret majors of higher vocational colleges are:
1. Mathematics Education
2. Elementary school education
3. English education
4. Language education
5. Legal Affairs
6. Cooking technology and nutrition
7. Tourism management
8. Chinese Language and Literature
9. Primary Education
10. Food nutrition and testing
The top 10 popular majors in universities are:
1. Computer science (including software engineering, big data, etc.)
2. Electrical and automation
3. Electronic information
4. Clinical Medicine
5. Oral Medicine
6. Mechanical design, manufacturing and automation
7. Aerospace Engineering
8. Network engineering
9. Internet of Things Engineering
10. Artificial intelligence
There is also a 2024 national professional employment rate statistics ranking top 20 list, which can also explain which majors are popular.
The top 20 employment majors in China in 2024 are:
1. Energy and power processing, employment rate 81.12%
2. Mechanical engineering, employment rate 75.45%
3. Microelectronics Science and Technology, employment rate 74.32%
4. Automation, employment rate 71.79%
5. Software Engineering, employment rate 70.13%
6. Vehicle engineering, employment rate 69.97%
7. Computer Science and Technology, employment rate 68.65%
8. Network engineering, employment rate 68.42%
9. Data Science and Big Data Technology, employment rate 67.21%
10. Robotics Engineering, employment rate 65.89%
11. Electrical engineering and automation, employment rate 65.31%
12. Communication engineering, employment rate 64.87%
13. Information security, employment rate 63.58%
14. Transportation, employment rate 63.05%
15. Digital media technology, employment rate 61.67%
16. Pharmaceutical engineering, employment rate 61.22%
17. Medical laboratory technology, employment rate 61.19%
18. Safety engineering, employment rate 60.76%
19. Industrial management, employment rate 60.23%
20. Nursing, employment rate 60.01%
Judging from the above rankings and statistics, there are the following characteristics:
First, engineering majors dominate the list, learning technology has become the most cost-effective, and normal majors are popular and directly retreat to the unpopular, and the teaching profession is no longer an iron rice bowl.
Second, engineering has become a sweet spot, while liberal arts has become a grandmother who doesn't love his uncle, and candidates who study liberal arts are a little worried. Liberal arts graduates struggle in the job market, and science students are also under great competitive pressure, with only a handful of jobs to choose from.
Third, it can be seen from the top 20 list of the national professional employment rate statistics in 2024 that only two medical majors, medical laboratory technology and nursing, are ranked in it, and they are still in a very low position, and the rest of the majors with higher employment rates are engineering majors.
Fourth, according to the 2023 China Blue-Collar Group Employment Research Report, the average monthly income of blue-collar workers will increase from 2,684 yuan in 2012 to 6,043 yuan in 2023, which is 2.25 times that of the original.
The average monthly salary of white-collar workers has risen by only 30% in 11 years, a quarter of the increase for blue-collar workers.
In addition, according to statistics, the proportion of 2022 undergraduate graduates with a monthly income of less than 6,000 yuan after half a year is as high as 57.7%, and only 6.9% have a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan.
This in itself shows that enterprises need technical talents, and learning a "technology" seems to have become an important way to ensure employment and get paid directly.
At present, most of the college entrance examination candidates have locked their target universities, but they are still vague about their target majors, and they don't even know their interests and hobbies. Which major is easy to get into? Which major is better for employment? In the end, it is necessary to implement employment, because choosing a major means that you choose what kind of job you will have in the future? Choosing a school is important, but you must not neglect your major.
What do you think about this?