Two American economists surveyed the income of nearly 20,000 college graduates in the ten to twenty years after graduation. Students admitted to traditional universities and traditional majors have higher income in the first five years, but the sixth year is a watershed. Until ten or twenty years later, the highest-paid groups are students who choose characteristic universities and majors that conform to the trend of the times.
According to this research, which university you go to is not the most critical factor affecting your life development, but whether you choose the right major that conforms to your own characteristics and the development trend of the times.
Most parents in China do not require their children to have any unique and novel characteristics, but only to meet various "common indicators". When they talk about "quality education", the fundamental starting point and the whole inner narrative are to make children become "standard products" for others to appreciate and choose.
The people trained by this kind of education are essentially passive thinking-I will become what the outside world likes. You must learn to follow the crowd, enter a big company and work in an office. The comparison between people is also the "blessing" of these external aura.
"Ancient scholars are for themselves, and today's scholars are human beings"-are you learning this thing to change the world and give full play to yourself, or to adapt to the world, dress up and attract others?
Due to historical reasons, the mainstream culture in China in the past few decades is "poor culture", and people have done a lot of research on "how to adapt to others" and little research on "how to make decisions by yourself". In the Silicon Valley of the United States, although the total number of engineers in China and India is evenly matched, the number of people entering the company management and starting businesses in China is obviously lower than that in India. Just because Indians have good English?
I think one of the important reasons is that Indians have a sense of ownership-they can think from the perspective of their owners. In our daily culture and orthodox education, we seldom discuss how to choose actively, how to appreciate beauty and how to change the world according to our own intentions.
It is difficult for people to break through the limitations of objective conditions. But if everyone follows this script, the world will be too boring. Remember, you are different from others. You are destined to achieve great things. All you have to do is follow your heart, not go with the flow.
With the results of the college entrance examination soon to be announced, how to choose a favorite university and a major that suits you has become the ultimate task for students and parents. Today, I want to share some real and effective methods and suggestions with you according to the world development trend and my own understanding of society for your reference.
First of all, let's talk about the three major trends of world development:
The first major trend is the empowerment of individuals.
The global middle class will rise strongly, 50% of the population will use the Internet, and women's ability will become stronger and stronger. People's values gradually converge, and people think they are part of the world.
The second trend is that resource scarcity, persistent poverty and environmental problems put forward higher requirements for sustainable development.
In the next 20 years, five factors will affect the world economic system: the economic development of developing countries, the shift of the focus of the world economy to Asia and Latin America, the aging of the West and East Asia, the population expansion of Africa and Southeast Asia, the promotion of the output value of agriculture and services, the promotion of trade and the transition to a green economy.
The third major trend is that the world is more diversified, and power is no longer concentrated in a big country, but more dispersed.
The United States, the European Union, China, India, Brazil and so on. It plays an important but not absolute role, and medium-sized countries, non-state actors and cities play a very important role.
Based on the development trend of the world, what impact does it have on our career choice and school choice?
First, position yourself, and then fill in your volunteers.
The world is changing rapidly, so we can't go with the flow any more. We need to think about a question: what is my personality and hobbies, what I am good at and what I want to do. If high school emphasizes all-round development, universities cultivate colorful personalities, which is also in line with the diversified development trend of the world. Therefore, after accurately positioning ourselves, we can choose a major and school that is more suitable for us and fill in the correct volunteers.
You can also pay attention to the employment prospects of various majors in the next five years before filling in your volunteers. After all, you still have to enter social work after graduation, and choose the one that suits you according to your preferences and advantages in some potential stocks majors.
Generally speaking, liberal arts girls who are not interested in mathematics and physics have more advantages in choosing special majors, such as fashion design, jewelry design, nursing, flight attendants, media majors and so on. Science boys will have more advantages in science and engineering majors with great development potential in the future, such as architecture, medicine, rail transit, or information engineering and urban construction.
Second, the city is very important. What kind of learning environment do you like?
Every city is like a song. When you listen carefully, you will find that every corner of the city has its own unique melody. Some are gradually becoming silent in the excitement, some are still melodious and melodious in the warmth and softness, and some are looking for bosom friends in the long stream of water.
Choosing a university means that you will stay in that school for three to five years.
Choosing a city suitable for your future development is conducive to shaping your correct values and outlook on life. It will have the most inclusive thoughts, and various atmospheres will collide on an open platform, so that generate will have more sparks of thoughts, and people who communicate will also gain more information and the ability to identify information.
During your college years, you not only studied in that school, but also lived in that city, and got a deep understanding of the local customs, development potential, future trends, resource atmosphere and future employment environment of this city. And the contacts and life experience you have accumulated in four years of college can help you find a job smoothly and settle down in this city.
With the rapid economic development in China, a large number of young college students have chosen several cities with huge development space except Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen after graduation. Here, I take stock of three prospective first-tier cities with the greatest potential in China in the future.
65438 +0. Wuhan
Historically, Wuhan was one of the core cities in China. Land, sea and air transportation is extremely developed, and transportation is very important to the development of a city. Industrial development, urban planning and the development of some high-tech industries are all very attractive. The fly in the ointment is that it is too hot in summer.
NO2。 Xi'an
Xi, the ancient capital, is the pillar of western development. As the starting point of the Silk Road, the geographical location is the central hub of the western region, with rich educational resources, tourism, high technology and medicine, and the prospect is immeasurable.
With the participation of many international multinational enterprises, Xi High-tech Zone has become one of the fourth largest high-tech zones in China, and will become the engine of economic development in the whole northwest in the future.
Third. Chengdu
Although the pace of life is slow, the strength of new energy vehicles, energy conservation and environmental protection, aerospace and other emerging industries has brought economic impetus to it and gradually attracted some talents.
Among the three major cities, I am more optimistic about the ancient capital Xi 'an. It is precisely because of the ancient capital Xi 'an that it is the pillar of the western development, the starting point of the Silk Road, the central hub of the western region and the core city of the Belt and Road Initiative. Rich in educational resources, the prospects of tourism, high technology, medicine and artificial intelligence are immeasurable.
Xi 'an is building a high-level industrial system with aerospace, intelligent manufacturing, robots and other high-end manufacturing industries as the core. Manufacturing and service industries sometimes complement each other, such as industrial robots, which are the integration of software, hardware and technical services. In addition, Xi's unprecedented open policy to attract talents is pushing the influx of top talents from all over the country and around the world. They will bring new thinking and unprecedented changes to Xi 'an.
Xi 'an, the Millennium Imperial Capital, is bound to be the next exit. If you make the right choice, you can catch up with this whirlwind.
Third, majors are far more important than schools.
Combine the selected cities, then determine the major you want to study, and finally choose the strongest school in your favorite major, even if the comprehensive evaluation strength of the school is not important at all, you should focus on the major. Ace major > key university.
A school's trump card major means that all the resources of this school will give priority to this major, where you will meet the most professional teachers and students, and the potential of mutual exchange and learning will make you grow rapidly in this major.
It is better to choose the trump card major of a lower level school than to choose the general major of a good school. The right choice will benefit you for life. For future employment, real professionals pay more attention to your professional ability. The so-called "heroes don't ask the source."
Senior personnel manager said: "If you want to enter a potential enterprise or foreign-funded company, the boss mainly values whether your professional ability matches your business, and whether your work experience matches your actual work performance."
For example, if you want to be an excellent fashion designer, do you choose Tsinghua Peking University or a university with this major? In that case, the reason is simple, right?
Shaanxi and xi 'an, which can be regarded as major education provinces, are also the gathering places of many universities. How to choose so many universities?
First look at your college entrance examination results. If your grades can reach 985,211,I still suggest that you try to choose these schools. However, the students who can go to 985, 2 1 1, are after all water chestnuts. The problem is that for students with average or unsatisfactory grades, how to choose a school has become a science.
According to the points we analyzed above, first of all, when your grades are not competitive, how can you successfully break through within three to five years after graduation and finally get the same or higher grades as 985,211classmates? It depends on your key choice of choosing a school after the college entrance examination.
Secondly, combine your own specialties, hobbies, ideals and achievements to finally determine your major, and then choose a university with all the characteristics according to your major. The reason why a characteristic university can attract more attention lies in its "characteristics". Think about it. Among the nearly 3,000 universities in China, can you remember a few and tell them what their dominant majors are?
I'm afraid it's difficult, right? The university is like this, and so is a person. Even if a person's comprehensive ability is excellent, if there is no characteristic, it will often be ignored by everyone. It is often those who have certain special skills and talents that are more easily remembered by the world. Ma Yun's English is great, but his math score in the college entrance examination is 0. Lang Lang's piano is great, but he failed in math and physics. Vincent Peters, a German photographer, dropped out of school because of poor academic performance. Tolstoy, a Russian critical realist writer, was dismissed for his poor academic performance. ...
Have you ever found that although these people are labeled as poor students, they have achieved something because of their other specialties and hobbies. This is what we often say, the east is not bright and the west is bright. It's getting dark, north and south. Therefore, students, the quality of college entrance examination results is not the only basis to determine your achievements in the next 5- 10 years. You have a second chance to make a key choice-choosing a school.
Among many universities in Xi 'an, I recommend two universities with distinctive features, which deserve our attention.
Shaanxi garment engineering college
School profile
Shaanxi Institute of Fashion Technology, founded in 1994, is an ordinary undergraduate college with the right to award bachelor's degrees approved by the Ministry of Education. The school is a full-time characteristic undergraduate university with the coordinated development of engineering, arts, literature, management, economy, medicine and teaching.
In accordance with the school-running concept of "market-oriented thinking, international vision and characteristic development", the school adheres to the principles of "developing the school with quality, strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with characteristics and managing the school according to law", continuously deepens the education and teaching reform, strengthens the connotation construction, and forms a distinctive school-running feature. At present, there are 13 secondary colleges, including Fashion Art College, Art Engineering College, Media College, Management College, Finance College, Information Engineering College, Urban Construction College, Jewelry College, Medical College, Education College, Flight Attendant College, Rail Transit College and Foreign Languages College, with more than 60 undergraduate and specialist majors.
The fundamental task of the school is to cultivate advanced applied talents with strong foundation, broad caliber, emphasis on practice, good application, engineering ability and innovative consciousness. The quality of education is excellent, and the scientific research results are remarkable. Graduates are generally praised by employers.
The school is located in the golden zone of Xixian New Area, adjacent to the Haojing site of the Western Zhou Dynasty capital, covering an area of more than 600,000 square meters and a construction area of 380,000 square meters. The campus is a garden-like building. Modern buildings with different styles, such as teaching buildings, digital libraries, science and technology complex buildings and student apartments, complement each other with music fountains and ecological parks. It is an institution of higher learning with elegant style and rich artistic atmosphere.
Expert governance
Professor Liu Wenxi, Honorary Dean, is a famous painter in China, and once served as Dean of xi Academy of Fine Arts. Qiu Yafu, honorary president, deputy to the 12th National People's Congress and chairman of Shandong Ruyi Group. Professor Dean is the former Party Secretary of Shaanxi University of Technology, and Professor Hu, the Party Secretary, is the former Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Ankang College. Professor Li Li, Premier, former Party Secretary of xidian university; Lv Chao, Vice President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, graduate student, senior economist; Vice President Professor Wen (Ph.D.) is the former vice president of the University of Posts and Telecommunications. Liu Mingfu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee, former deputy director of Xianyang Education Bureau and former director of Education Supervision Office of Xianyang Municipal People's Government.
professor
The school has gathered a large number of college experts, professors and senior scholars to form a management team, and implemented an education and teaching team of experts, professors, famous teachers and celebrities. Professor Liu Wenxi, Honorary Dean, is a famous painter in China, and once served as Dean of xi Academy of Fine Arts. Qiu Yafu, honorary president, deputy to the 12th National People's Congress and chairman of Shandong Ruyi Group.
Distinctive feature
In accordance with the school-running philosophy of "market-oriented thinking, international vision and characteristic development", the college adheres to the principles of "developing the school with quality, strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with characteristics and governing the school according to law", continuously deepens the education and teaching reform, strengthens the connotation construction, and forms a distinctive school-running characteristic. The basic task of the college is to cultivate advanced applied talents with strong foundation, wide caliber, practice-oriented, good at application, engineering ability and innovative spirit. The quality of education is very good, and the employment rate has been high for many years. Graduates are generally well received by employers.
The school's clothing design, jewelry, clothing design and engineering are all well-known brands in China. At the same time, it has formed an economic management professional group featuring clothing brand and marketing, an art design professional group featuring international fashion and fashion industry, a jewelry professional group featuring clothing design, a nursing professional group featuring Chinese medicine pharmacy and health care, a professional group featuring urban rail transit, and a normal professional group featuring preschool education. These majors highlight the combination of arts and crafts. At present, in the tide of the construction of "first-class colleges and first-class majors" in China, we strive to strive for first-class characteristic colleges.
Hardware facilities
The school has complete hardware teaching conditions and advanced facilities. It has two provincial-level teaching demonstration centers: the virtual simulation experimental teaching demonstration center of economic management and the experimental teaching demonstration center of clothing specialty. It has a clothing training base supported by the central government, a provincial-level art training base in Shaanxi Province and a large-scale clothing training workshop. There are 150 professional laboratories such as advanced nursing skill training center and comprehensive medical training center, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is nearly 100 million yuan. Library collection 1 10,000 volumes. The school's wireless network is fully covered. Based on the 10 Gigabit backbone network, 20,000 terminals can use the campus network, data center, teaching quality monitoring system, live broadcast on demand system, security monitoring private network system and other systems to realize the digital campus. Equipped with high-standard student apartments, restaurants, basketball courts, football fields, quality development bases and other places. It provides excellent conditions for students to broaden their horizons, strengthen their practice, improve their ability and adapt to the working environment as soon as possible.
National University of Ji Xianlin
Mr. Ji Xianlin, a master of Chinese studies, attached great importance to the spread of great Chinese studies before his death, and personally authorized Lv Ming, the chairman of the college, to establish Ji Xianlin Institute of Chinese Studies. At present, there are Ji Xianlin Memorial Hall, Academic Research Center, Sinology Research Institute, General History Research Institute, Publishing House, National Service Research Institute, Traditional Chinese Painting Research Institute, Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute and Black Pottery Research Institute. In order to realize Ji Lao's long-cherished wish to carry forward the great thoughts of Chinese studies of 56 nationalities, that Chinese studies originated from the people and were used by the people. The memorial hall displays and preserves nearly a thousand photos, objects, manuscripts and more than 10,000 books of Ji Lao. The establishment of Ji Xianlin National College has enriched the connotation of running a school, nourished generations of young students with the great thought of Chinese studies, and become a unique educational holy land of China's traditional culture.
Idea of running a school
The college put forward the school-running concept of "market-oriented thinking, international vision and characteristic development". Cultivate advanced applied talents with thick foundation, wide caliber, practice-oriented, good at application, engineering ability and innovative spirit, adhere to the combination of Industry-University-Research, establish a college-based talent quality monitoring system and introduce a social evaluation mechanism, and implement a comprehensive assessment of knowledge and ability based on application ability.
Safe campus
Since the establishment of the school, with the goal of creating a "civilized, progressive, harmonious, safe and green" campus, we have deepened the reform of the student management system, adhered to the guiding ideology of "educating people-oriented, strict management, strict discipline, publicity of personality and all-round development", and constantly strengthened and innovated the student management methods, which has achieved remarkable results, and maintained a zero record of major accidents since the establishment of the school 23 years ago. It was awarded the honorary title of "Safe Campus" by Shaanxi Higher Education Working Committee, Shaanxi Comprehensive Management Committee and Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department.
Industry-University-Research Cooperative Education
Shaanxi Institute of Fashion is a custom-made clothing unit for CCTV hosts. The school's clothing research institute implements the combination of Industry-University-Research, which provides a good place for teachers and students to integrate theory with practice, carry out teaching research and develop new products. The institute has successively tailored high-end clothes for international celebrity world stock gods Buffett, Yu Dan, Qian Wenzhong, famous scholars from lecture halls, CCTV program hosts, movie stars and so on, and won unanimous praise.
Scared bode clothing company
Shaanxi Scared Clothing Co., Ltd. and the college combine school and enterprise, which is not only an independent clothing manufacturer, but also an internship base of the school, providing a broad platform for the timely transformation of teachers and students' scientific research achievements and creating benefits for the enterprise.
international communication
The school actively carried out international exchanges and cooperation, and successively signed joint school-running agreements with 25 internationally renowned universities in the United States, Britain, Italy, Australia, South Korea, Thailand, Japan and Taiwan Province Province of China. For outstanding students, realize the dream of "junior college entering undergraduate course, undergraduate course entering graduate school and graduate school". Students can choose "2+ 1", "2+2", "3+ 1", "3+2" and "3+4". Diploma from an internationally renowned university (certified by the Ministry of Education). It not only improves the education level, but also paves the way for students to find jobs abroad.
The road to employment
Over the years, the demand for school graduates exceeds the supply, and the quality of employment has improved year by year. We have established a long-term cooperative relationship between talent supply and demand with well-known domestic enterprises. Graduates are distributed in Shaanxi, Beijing, Shanghai and other places, as well as the United States, Britain, Italy, Australia, South Korea, Thailand, Japan and other countries and Taiwan Province Province. Many graduates have become the backbone of enterprises or successful practitioners of self-employment.
School-enterprise inter-school cooperation
The College has successively signed school-enterprise cooperation agreements with Shandong Ruyi Group, Sunshine Group, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Huawei, Lenovo and other top 500 enterprises at home and abroad, signed a strategic agreement with Xianyang Xinxing Textile Industrial Park to jointly build a campus, and signed a' * * * *' assistance agreement with Xi 'an Engineering University on collaborative innovation, teacher construction and resources, which further increased the speed and intensity of school-enterprise cooperation and inter-school cooperation. The college has accelerated the transformation to a technical university, explored new modes and new ways of cultivating applied talents, cooperated with employers in all directions, fields and the whole process, and strived to cultivate more and better high-quality technical talents for the country.
Haojing College of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology
Haojing College of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology is the first batch of independent colleges at undergraduate level in Shaanxi Province. It is jointly organized by Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, a national key university, and Shaanxi Skaribode Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Innovation Haojing Group. It integrates higher education, pharmaceutical industry, energy industry, biotechnology, clothing industry, ecological science and technology agriculture, and investment and merger.
Haojing Group was established in 2004, with an investment of more than 700 million yuan in the first phase, covering an area of 555 mu and a building area of 200,000 square meters. There are more than 8,000 students and 400 faculty members, including 65,438 professors and associate professors. The college has the only holy land of traditional culture and education in China, Ji Xianlin University for Nationalities, Shaanxi Social Science Popularization Base, modern high-tech 505 medicine industry, clothing company combining traditional and modern science and technology informationization, experimental training building, network virtual laboratory, library and so on. Excellent school conditions.
The college has established cooperative relations with international universities such as Manchester University, Liverpool University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Sydney, University of Bochum, University of Poitiers, and Malaysia Polytechnic University, which has broadened students' international horizons. At present, there are two major professional groups, namely, economic management and electrical information, which are characterized by logistics engineering, pharmaceutical engineering and clothing, forming a characteristic professional category serving local economic and social development.
The college has strengthened the construction of teaching staff and established a new and powerful team of famous teachers. On the one hand, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology has selected a group of experts and professors with rich experience and strong sense of responsibility as backbone teachers. On the other hand, the college actively trains its own team of young teachers, and promotes the rapid growth of young teachers by going abroad for further study, cultivating famous domestic schools and bringing the old with the new.
Haojing College, since its establishment more than ten years ago, has adhered to the road of connotative development.
Highlight education-oriented, maintain English characteristics, strengthen professional education, and pay attention to the cultivation of practical comprehensive ability and innovative spirit; Comprehensively strengthen the infrastructure construction of education and teaching, and implement three major projects: specialty construction, teacher team construction and laboratory construction; Standardize and strengthen teaching management; The talent training mode of "one body and two wings" has been constructed. Up to now, the school has maintained a zero record of major accidents.
Haojing College has always adhered to the training goal of high-quality applied talents, strengthened specialty construction and teaching reform, and established a perfect teaching system combining classroom teaching, scientific experiments, practical training and social practice. The College invested heavily in the establishment of an internship training building, seized the opportunity of the construction of Yungu and Smart City in western Xixian New Area, and introduced the production line and operational logistics system into the classroom in real time with the help of the Internet, making the educational Internet (internet plus) not far away, and built a diversified education platform for the massive open online courses and micro-course education informationization trend.
The school always regards talent training as the fundamental task and constantly improves the quality of education and teaching. The one-time pass rate of CET-4 has remained above 85% for many years. In 20 15, national english contest for college students won one first prize and 15 first prizes, leading the universities in Shaanxi; In the 20 14 national mathematical modeling competition for college students, he won the first prize 1 name of Shaanxi undergraduate group and 2 second prizes, with the winning ratio as high as 75%.
In order to adapt to the transformation and development of colleges and universities, strengthen vocational skills training and encourage students to obtain various vocational skills certificates according to the requirements of professional posts, the college has established in-depth cooperative relations with well-known national training institutions and enterprises with complete qualifications, strong technical force and rich practical experience, and carried out practical training projects such as ARM, 3G/4G, JAVA, accounting, human resources, logistics engineer and ERP, which further strengthened the practical teaching links.
A total of 20 14 economic management students119 people obtained an excellent pass rate of 72% in Shaanxi accounting qualification examination. Through practical training and qualification examination, students' practical ability is enhanced and the distance between book knowledge and production practice is shortened.
College and Samsung Electronics, Huawei, Lenovo, Ruyi, Beijing Zhongguancun, China Industrial and Commercial Bank, China Construction Bank, China Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China Merchants Bank, China Telecom, China Mobile, Xi Xianyang International Airport, West Airport and other * * construction training bases; Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Suzhou, the bridgehead of China's reform and opening up and pioneers of free trade zones, have been chosen to establish practice bases, organically combine practice and employment, enhance professional ability, cultivate new models to meet the needs of social markets, create high-quality employment innovation roads, and create favorable conditions for mass entrepreneurship and innovation.
The College was rated as "National Advanced Independent College" in 20 10, won the highest evaluation in the annual inspection organized by the Education Department in 20 16, won the "Best Employment Quality Award" in 20 12, and won the "Education and Teaching Achievement Award" in 20 13. In 20 14, it was rated as "the most satisfactory institution for students of the year".
Superior leaders, experts and many parents have recognized and praised the management of the school. When graduates leave school, they are even more reluctant to go to school, and employers are pouring in. They praised the graduates of Haojing College of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology as "high-quality applied talents who can sit still, eat hard, use quickly, have the advantage of being a latecomer, have modern consciousness and have an international vision".
Senior three students, a veteran who fought in the college entrance examination battlefield like you, a doctor from Tsinghua, and I am also an educator, cheer for you. I wish you a smooth exam, a successful school choice and a bright future!
Thank you all.