Let's talk about income expectations first.
German is a foreign-related field and can be combined with many industries, such as foreign trade. In the field of foreign trade involving German, there are many opportunities to work for one month a year with an annual salary of 500,000.
As long as you can learn the language well, learn and expand your knowledge, you can plunge into these high-paying industries. It's only a matter of time before you enter the middle and high income class.
Low competition
There is little competition for German majors. Many 2 1 1 universities, you only need a German graduate degree to become a formal lecturer in such universities.
If you major in mathematics, you may get a doctorate, but you may not have the opportunity to be a lecturer at 2 1 1 university. Although mathematics is an unpopular subject, the competition is extremely fierce.
There is a simple reason. Students who originally studied German rarely took the postgraduate entrance examination, because they can already earn a good income after graduation. Therefore, not many people can settle down to graduate school, and not many people are willing to stay in school after graduation. Because the income from running outside is more than that from school. So it is much less difficult to become a university teacher.
If you get a doctorate in German, whether it's a key position in a state-owned enterprise or a position in the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you can choose how to enter a university as a teacher, which is basically free.
Some of my peers didn't learn very well, that is, they graduated from 2 1 1, but they also succeeded in becoming German teachers in some two or even three universities. If you become a German teacher in high school, you don't even need a bachelor's degree. You only need a German C 1 certificate.
Choice is greater than effort.
When choosing a major, we must know a truth, that is, choice is greater than effort. You can easily enter a competitive primary school and get a high salary, so you must know how to cherish it. Don't give up just because you have difficulty in studying at the moment.
I think to answer this question, we must first find the root of the problem, that is, your son wants to change his major from German to mathematics. Is it German or math?
Specifically, did you give up your German major because it was too difficult to learn German? There is no problem with the characteristics and hobbies of German itself, but there are doubts about the employment prospects? Still interested in German?
If you are afraid of learning difficulties, you should pay attention, because although the characteristics of each major are different, you will always encounter such difficulties in your study. Don't flinch when you are killed, but find a suitable learning method to overcome it. If you are in doubt about the future employment prospects of German, you can learn from "experienced people"-former senior students or graduates of the same major. As far as I know, the employment prospects of foreign languages are still relatively broad, because students majoring in this major are a bit like screws and can be placed in many positions responsible for communication. Finally, if you are really not interested in foreign language major and it is difficult and painful to learn it, then you should consider what major you are really interested in besides German.
In the last case, if the major you are interested in is really mathematics rather than anything else, then changing majors can basically be established. Even in this case, we should consider the actual operation of changing majors: first, we should study the policy of changing majors in our school, whether the academic system will be extended because of the need to make up credits for changing majors, and whether we are psychologically prepared to bear the consequences.
Second, do you have the necessary basic knowledge and literacy for the major you want to study in the future, that is, will you encounter greater learning difficulties when you change from a liberal arts student to a science student? Have you planned how to overcome it?
Thirdly, from the perspective of parents' concern and children's future development, they all hope to have a good future after graduation. Since you want to learn math, have you considered the next step: postgraduate entrance examination? Employment? Going abroad? Choose a major related to mathematics, but continue to develop more refined and specialized? Mathematics-related majors, which are popular now or have great potential for future development, have you done any research?
The span is a bit big, don't be the boss. It's all over since freshman year. Decide for yourself.
If he really wants to, or if he has a specialty in this field, that's fine.
There are many courses in mathematics, but you have to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and everything else can be admitted. Finally, it is nothing more than politics, English, advanced algebra and mathematical analysis. The latter two are basic courses, and mathematics is relatively strong, so passing these two subjects scores the most.
If you take an examination of other majors, it is best to be related to mathematics, which will benefit a lot. Americans and their western countries attach great importance to mathematics, and it is easy to do it after doing this. Our country has not realized this.
This major spans too much, and it is not difficult to estimate. Mathematics is not so easy to read, although there are many options for cross-disciplinary examination and research. I suggest you make a good plan together and think about which industry you will develop in, so that you want to learn this today and change which one tomorrow, without any purpose. In the end, you have a little knowledge of that, and you can't learn it well, which will not help your future development. Even if you want to pursue further studies, you have a direction. The above is just my personal opinion, for your reference, I hope it will help you.
I find it difficult.
It's best not to switch to German, because German is better for his future employment.
If I think it's more difficult to turn to math, because there are more math talents in our country, can you rank among the top?
think
I think from the perspective of employment, mathematics is the best, with many industries and single morality. If your son is good at math, self-loving, introverted, calm down and confident to learn well, he can transfer to math. But you can't make a decision. It is important for your son to choose for himself before studying hard. This is my answer, for reference only.
Interest is the most important thing
My undergraduate major is mathematics, and now my graduate students are also majoring in mathematics. First of all, I must tell you that high school math is not equal to college math. In middle school, the mathematics we learn is partial calculation, and we use the existing conclusions to calculate something. However, mathematics in universities focuses on theory, and the undergraduate stage is relatively shallow knowledge. Now we must prove why we once thought it was easy. For example, if we know the formula for finding the area of a circle, then we need to know how this formula came from and why it can be calculated like this. Later we learned that it was because of the limit. In this process, the role of high school mathematics is not particularly great. Of course, if you have the intention to take the postgraduate entrance examination and feel that you can understand mathematics, I think the development prospect of mathematics major is great.