Choosing a school or a major? Which is more important?

Recently, I have found that many students are either late in applying or desperately trying to apply, and one of the main reasons is that they are very conflicted and entangled in the positioning of colleges and majors, which leads to no decision.

You can't have it both ways, but usually you can't. Very few students are good enough to choose a major at a school, and most of them are faced with the problem of choosing their first school or their first major. Maybe it's better to be an observer, so I'd like to share some of my own opinions in the hope that they can give you some reference.

First, the first choice of school

What kind of situation can be prioritized to develop the choice of a school to carry a high ranking? Here to consider how much difference in ranking between the school education you can get to? To give you 2 of the most frequently encountered problems students ask.

1. Hong Kong Baptist University's media and the Chinese University of Hong Kong's media. Many students conditions are very good, Hong Kong Chinese University is also a great opportunity to sprint, but also take into account the Baptist University of the media profession in the field of higher visibility and more recognized, so unusually entangled, here to the advice is: preferred Hong Kong Chinese University. Why?

Chinese QS ranked 38th, while Baptist only ranked 281st, which is very different. You can give HKC what HKBU can give, but in terms of job opportunities, international student policies and alumni resources, HKC brings you nothing compared to HKBU.

As far as the job market is concerned, the top 100 companies are still a simple and brutal way of hiring with just an interview degree. HKC can easily get interview invitations from any company, Baptist is limited to this field, the industries you may encounter will respect your expertise, unsophisticated HR will only put you among the alternatives, often with fewer opportunities to lose in the future.

2. Master of Arts in Teaching, The Hong Kong University of Education and Master of Arts in Teaching, The University of Hong Kong. This one should be better. Most people who can go to HKU will not consider Jiao University anymore. Even if Jiao University is ranked in the teens in the world for its subjects and is more recognized in the field of education, it can't match the ranking advantage that HKU can bring.

So it can be obvious that the ranking gap is relatively large when the first choice of our school, this time who will not be because of the entanglement, after all, the famous school complex exists in the society of everyone's heart, just a different degree to carry out the high and low.

Famous universities have great potential for development, strong faculty, rich alumni resources, and significant research achievements. This will form a virtuous circle, and even after a few years, graduates can still enjoy the sense of value and honor that the university brings.

Okay, but the question is when is the ranking gap not too big? For example, the difference between the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is only a dozen places. That's when it comes down to specialty rankings. City University has some advantages in business and social sciences over science and engineering, which are more advanced in research in new technologies. This is when science and engineering students can choose science and engineering. Section II shares this in detail~

Second, the preferred specialty

In what kind of situation do you choose a major with a high priority ranking? It depends on how high your career threshold is.

1. science and engineering. It is recommended to choose an institution with strong scientific research and sufficient project funding in your field of specialization.

As an example, Shenzhen University (SZU) in the Mainland, which is not 985/211 or even no longer a double first class, but the social recognition is not inferior to that of the middle and lower end 211, and one of the reasons for the deep analysis lies in the academic strength. Shenzhen University in the construction of science and technology, how much investment? A School of Management funding than the Northwest Nationalities to carry out one of our school's funding is more, but also will be highly paid professors from overseas and some parts of Hong Kong, which not only allows the school education itself to walk in the forefront of academic theory and research, but also allows students to help improve the competitiveness of students through contact with the latest along the field to help improve the establishment of perfect their own competitiveness among students, so that personal information has science and technology trade barriers, even if the school Ranking is not high, but I can do what others can not do, irreplaceable can effectively make up for the ranking of this work surface conditions.

2. Arts and social sciences. This kind of professional does not need to study hard what is good, you can just give up the professional ranking. Because there is no professional barriers, the resources and quality of education in each school's respective programs will not be too different, Peking University students can remember the legal regulations that non-students and students know, Fudan Chinese and literature students to create works are not necessarily worse than her. When they can't establish their scarcity on a technical level, they are forced to compete on a narrower track, starting with their first-degree background and first-choice school rankings.

3.Business. As the most popular field of study to apply for, naturally, professional rankings take precedence. In the employment process, those investment banks and Big 4 really love to card students' college background. They can't even pass the resume without the ranking to add to it.

There is also a situation where the difference in school rankings is not that big