UK: It takes two rounds of interviews to pass.
Linlin, from Shenzhen, is studying mathematics and business management at Kingston University. After graduation, she applied to study marketing in university of westminster. During the application process, she went through two rounds of interviews before she got the postgraduate admission notice of this major. "I took several business courses when I was an undergraduate, but my major was mathematics, so when I applied for graduate students across disciplines, the teacher thought I didn't have enough basic knowledge, and the interviewed teachers came from different disciplines."
It is very free to choose a university education in Britain. Theoretically, any student can choose any major. However, the British choose their majors more according to their own interests, so it is generally difficult to accept students applying for two completely different majors at the same time. Students need to fully explain the reasons for applying for changing majors. At the same time, there will be certain requirements when enrolling students, such as requiring credits for related courses, relevant work experience, and even requiring students to study in the preparatory course for one year.
United States: preparing for special exams
It is relatively difficult for the United States to apply for interdisciplinary study abroad. There are basically two situations. One is a bachelor of arts or science to study for MBA, international management, international business and master's degree in law. This situation is relatively rare, because these master's programs accept applications from any major; In another case, a bachelor of arts goes to study for a master of science and engineering. For example, a linguistics graduate studies electronic engineering, or a bachelor of science or a bachelor of engineering studies a master of arts, just like a civil engineering student studies comparative literature. These situations have nothing to do with what he has learned and what he will learn, and they span a lot.
The fundamental reason why it is difficult to apply for cross-majors is that their professional courses are very different and they don't have a deep understanding of each other's fields. In view of this situation, it is suggested that those students who want to change their major to graduate students should make long-term plans and take relevant courses while studying this major, which is of great help to the application.
If you only study the courses of related majors by yourself and have no credits, in this case, the most effective way is to take the special examination of this major. If you get a special score, it will undoubtedly play some positive roles in the application.
Australia: The same application is easier to pass.
One of the aims of faculty education in Australian educational institutions is to respect students' right to choose a major. As long as students meet the basic admission criteria of Australian universities, all applicants have the opportunity to apply across disciplines.
Usually, applications from one department of each university are relatively easy to be approved. For example, under the engineering department of Australian universities, there will be many engineering majors, such as information engineering, communication engineering, manufacturing or mechanical engineering, biochemistry and so on. And applications between these majors are relatively easy to be approved; Business and economics will also include many majors, such as finance, accounting, banking and monetary science, and applications between students are relatively easy to be approved.
Typical interdisciplinary applications are submitted under different facilities. For example, undergraduate students majoring in foreign languages apply for postgraduate courses in accounting in order to master a professional knowledge; For example, engineering graduates want to study management or business.
Japan: Contact the tutor in advance.
Because Japanese universities have no restrictions on undergraduate majors in the application and admission process, and there is no unified national entrance examination, as long as students' research plans, letters of recommendation and other documents are really meaningful, they can completely prove to professors that they have the knowledge base and academic ability to continue their new professional studies when they are in contact with professors, especially during interviews.
As far as the professional background is concerned, it is relatively easy for liberal arts students to change majors and supplement basic knowledge. If science and engineering students give up their major for four years and want to apply for interdisciplinary study, they generally have a narrow choice and can only choose a short-span discipline or transfer to liberal arts. Art design, such as graphic design, has a corresponding basis for changing majors and applying for other design categories.
Students who plan to go to Japan for postgraduate study should have a corresponding level of Japanese. It is best to get in touch with their tutors in advance and attend the department for half a year to one year to supplement the relevant basic courses, so that they can successfully pass the professional course examination of the university and formally study the monk course. If you just want to save time and easily get a prestigious diploma with high gold content, the feasibility is not high.
Korea: a compulsory course of makeup for undergraduates
There are no professional restrictions on applying for Korean graduate students, and you can choose to go abroad for postgraduate study. However, the major span should not be too big, and there will be more cross-major choices for liberal arts students, and there will be relatively few science students. After all, science and engineering disciplines are more professional. Without a certain foundation, it is difficult to graduate even if you apply. There are generally few postgraduate courses in Korea, and there may be only 2-3 days of classes a week. Many times you have to prepare for publication, and the professor will arrange topics for students.
If there is a big span between undergraduate and postgraduate majors, it will be hard for students to make up some compulsory courses for undergraduates in addition to their daily postgraduate courses.
South Korea's master's program lasts for two years, most students can graduate within two years, and some students will extend their graduation time because of preparing their papers.
Suggestions on going abroad for postgraduate study.
The general principles of interdisciplinary application: science is easy to change jobs, science is easy to change articles, economics is easy to change to pure liberal arts, and vice versa.
From the deep-seated reasons, liberal arts emphasize perceptual knowledge, and as long as they have strong learning ability, they can study in depth on the existing basis; Science and engineering focus on reasoning, and its discipline system is step by step, which is difficult to cross. Moreover, science and engineering students are influenced by college Chinese elective courses even when they enter the university, not to mention all kinds of reading materials that can be seen everywhere in life. It is also very important that the chosen major should meet the needs of the job market to a certain extent.