A major disappearing, abandoned by 83 universities, no schoolmates and sisters

Over the past five years, a major named "Public Institute of Management" has disappeared from the list of 83 universities.

It has become the majority of abolished by the university: from 2017 to 2021, 9, 9, 13, 21, and 31 were abolished.

But 20 years ago, it was also a popular new major in universities to open it: from 2000 to 2001, the universities opened from 57 to 132.

Why is a major popular and why disappear? Public business management majors can be said to be a good sample. It was born in the context of the changes in government functions and increasingly complex social management, but now in many universities, mostly misunderstandings of "public management for civil servants are more convenient". Society's job demand for its position has also been decreasing. In 2019, it decreased by 31%compared with 2018, and in 2020, it decreased by 37%compared with 2019.

Industrial and commercial management, human resources management, administrative management ... Many times, public utility management is more like these majors -learn a little, but nothing is fine. Some people found that the major of the school had just opened for three years, and even a graduate could not be found; some people learned that the teachers of this major were actually patched together from other majors; others found themselves It is the last student of this major in the school. After graduating, this major disappears.

The disappearance of a professional seems easy, but the students who are in it must slowly realize what it means for a long time after graduation.

Wen | Xie Yan

Edit | Yi Fangxing

Operation | Yue Mi

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Gao Yan, 23, studied "public business management" for 4 years at Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics. When she graduated, she faced three options: exams, postgraduate entrance examinations, and enterprises. Each choice was not easy.

Let's talk about Kao Gong. Students of the same major have a nickname to manage the public cause, called the "Director of the neighborhood Committee". A large reason is that the courses involving civil service examinations here are obviously more than other majors, such as official document writing and civil servant system.

In order to be worthy of the "Director of the Residents Committee", most of the students in the class are extremely concerned about the Kaogong. Some students will record in the course and return to the dormitory before sorting out and recitation. Teachers will also focus on. When a teacher who teaches human resources, when they arrive in their class, they often give the small stoves of the "civil servant examination" to explain the real questions over the years. Gao Yan joked: This advantage is that the cost of saving the civil servant examination training course can be saved.

80%of the classmates in the class are in the exam, but the fact is that only 20%of less than 20%can go ashore. When they really apply for the exam, they will find that compared with "administrative management" and "industrial and commercial management", such as the same management science, there are few positions that recruit "public institutional management". This year is pretty good, because there is an extra career in the career of the "epidemic prevention staff" and is willing to recruit this major. "But these positions are quickly snatched away." "".

Confucius and her classmates who also encountered difficulties.

Kongmei is a 2019 student in public business management at the Harbin Institute of Finance. In my junior year, one of her classmates was preparing to take the exam. First, I went to the Internet to search for a job where public business management could be applied for, but the result quickly gave him a blow -he could only apply for the exam. Many things that seem to be able to do this, such as management and administrative categories, have limited "law" and "political science".

The classmate came to share this discovery with her, and was very disappointed: "When reporting a major, I wrote to cultivate comprehensive talents, and finally found that it was not like this at all."

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So that in the four years of college, the students around Kong Mei were desperately verifying. She observed that any certificate of her professional students seemed very "strenuous". Because the courses involved in this major were very extensive, the accounting certificates were available, the teacher qualification certificate was available, and the qualification certificate in the direction of finance and human resources could also be tested. Essence Because there was a "management psychology" in the table, she even went to apply for a certificate of psychology. But every time she went to take a new certificate, she found that the schooling thing was not enough to support her to pass any professional certificate.

Going to a business is also difficult. After seeing the classmates who were frustrated, Kong Mei chose to find a job. In the summer of 2019, she came to Beijing and arranged three interviews for herself a day. Recalling all the interviews that year, Kong Mei only remembers one scene. No matter what post she was delivered, the other party would be asked by the other party: "You major, what exactly do you learn?"

She explained: "The most important thing is to cultivate civil servants." Some interviewers' interests stopped abruptly. Even in the face of other interviewers who gave her a chance, she also had a guilty conscience. Not fine, if she was asked some more professional questions, she would definitely not answer.

In the end, she gave up and started to study the position of marketing. Every time I introduce the professionalism during the interview, she will actively emphasize: "I come from a financial college, and this major also offers financial and marketing courses." I hope to dispel the other party's concerns.

There are also Zhang Aige who have the same experience. Most of the resumes she cast did not respond. She concluded: "This major is not irreplaceable, everyone can do it, and the salary is not very high."

In the last road, there are only postgraduate entrance examinations -change majors and come from scratch again. ▲ In the university library, students are endorsement. Photo / Visual China

Enter the game

In college, one of the most impressive things in Gao Yan is to count the Spring Games.

As a financial university, the financial institute and accounting, accounting for two and most of the school, the largest number of people, the largest number, and about thousands of. In this school's most important sports competition, the Financial Court has won 6 years of championships. The accounting center is second every year. The smell of gunpowder on both sides is very strong. On the auditorium, the two sides are preparing a drum. This drum can be able to sound. From the beginning of the Games to the end of the Games, whoever is tired will replace the bench. In contrast, as far as 38 people's public business management majors are simply a soy sauce, at the sports meeting, Gao Yan's only award is the "Health Award".

This major is really edge in school. Gao Yan is an active person. Almost every department knows people, but few friends can say the full name of her professional. There are too few students, there are only one class, 4 years of university, 38 people, and four or five people who have left their majors to leave. As one of the least majors in the school, one year, because only 12 people have been recruited, this major is not opened.

These are just a microcosm of public management majors in school. Before coming, Gao Yan never thought it would be like this.

She participated in the college entrance examination in 2018 and had just scored 7 points. Inner Mongolia is a dynamic dynamic volunteer report, the scene is fierce, and her mother specially invited a volunteer to fill in the teacher to help her. The teacher advised her: "My relatives were studying this major before. There are many exams, which is equivalent to studying for 4 years. Isn't it easy for you to take the test?"

After filling in the volunteer, her mother was very happy, and Gao Yan was silent. During the Shanghai World Expo, she went to Shanghai to travel, sitting in magnetic suspension, and felt that "the outside world was really wonderful." In three years of high school, her wish has always been "going out", but she did not think. In the end, she stayed in Inner Mongolia and learned a major of "the purpose of testing the public".

Many people in this major have similar experiences to Gao Yan. Kong Mei from rural Hebei, the portrait of the student days is too common. It is the typical appearance of the town to do the topic: the late self -study in junior high school ends at 9 o'clock, the late self -study in high school ends at 10 o'clock, the school takes Hengshui Middle School as a template, all all, all all, all all, all of them, all of them. Everyone is doing questions, and all teachers are emphasizing: "You have to go to college, you have to be admitted to a good university."

As for what kind of university, how to fill in volunteers, no one taught her. She is one of the few students who have been admitted to the university. Her parents did not understand, and let her watch it herself. When she filled in public business management, all the imagination of this major comes from the TV series that I watched as a child: the manager every time The appearance is decent and exquisite.

If you want to go back to the past, filling in volunteers For Zhang Aige, it is more like a "empiricalism" from the older generation. For example, the season of filling in volunteer in the college entrance examination every year, parents will divide their majors into unpopular and popular majors. Most ordinary families, the popular indicators are "good employment in the future".

Zhang Aige is too familiar with this scene. She originally wanted to learn English or a small language, and her parents expressed their opposition. The two had done a lifetime staff in the unit. Believe in stability is the ultimate goal: "A girl, finding a similar job, not so tired, there is almost a copy of the same, there is almost the same one. The income is fine. "

The earliest major of parents was human resource management, but the Yanshan University of Yanshan University she wanted to go without this major. In the professional introduction of those lines, public institutions have appeared. From the name point of view, these two majors seem to be almost the same. She came to this major like this.

If you can't say or not, she accepts this setting: "I will envy those who have learned their professionalism, but I feel that there are too few people such. It seems that they are here. "

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Awkward

Gao Yan's college days were from 2019 to 2022. These 4 years are also 4 years when public business management is increasingly canceled.

She asked a professional teacher: "Why is this major canceled in many universities?"

After thinking about the teacher, she answered her question: "It is mainly this major, full, empty, distinctive, the core competitiveness of the main course is not strong ... The students who are trained in the end lack unique professional skills, lack of clear ones Employment direction, it is difficult to answer which unit internship majors are going on. "

The judgment of Gao Yan's professional class teacher was verified in many students.

When Kong Mei went to school, this major only opened for three years in the school, which also means that the school has not even followed the entire path to train an undergraduate. Many things on the professional settings have not been verified.

Today, after four or five years of graduation, in her memory, this major is like a pot of "Northeast Stew", and all kinds of courses are stuffed. Class tables include finance, accounting, financial management, human resources management and marketing. The only one who sounds like public business management is "public management" and "social work and guarantee". Later, she knew other professional friends, talked about her respective tables, and found a cruel reality: the basic theoretical courses of other majors took it out to make up, and formed her table.

There are also problems with teachers. When Kong Mei went to school, most teachers in their majors were master's degree. A teacher who taught human resources was still studying for a master's degree at that time. The teacher had no degree card and only graduation certificate. A teacher at the same time is also a common occurrence. For example, the teacher who teaches "social work" is an external employment. The original major of the teacher who teaches the "engineering business management" is "forestry management". During the time when Mei wrote a graduation thesis, the teacher left the school. The internship also revealed the embarrassment of this major. Kong Mei also remembers that the internship course was a two -week simulation bank. Usually, three majors were combined to choose a social role to simulate how the enterprise operated in society. Students of financial majors have naturally selected the internal positions of the bank. Students from human resource management to do HR. In the end, only their own professional students have nowhere to go, scattered in the various provisions, finance, and manpower. In the same post.

Zhang Aige's experience is similar. When he graduated from internship that year, the teacher took the classmates to a wine base and a company that produced glass. After walking a day, I visited the fancy. This is all the internship content.

After a period of time, she recognized a reality. Except for her, few people took the initiative to fill in this major, and most of them were adjusted. It is also for this reason that in the year of the beginning of school, the counselor repeatedly seized all the occasions and emphasized that he hoped that students would have confidence in this major.

But it is quite ironic that after the freshman read, this major was canceled, and Zhang Aige became the last student of this school. The school has no explanation. She and her classmates speculated that "maybe it is not good for employment." By the sophomore, three students in their class seized the final professional opportunity and fled to accounting.

▲ From 2017 to 2021, public institutional management was abolished by 83 universities. Photo / Tian Wei

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With the changes in the times, professional elimination and new additions are normal.

According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, the undergraduate major of colleges and universities will be set up and adjusted, and the filing or approval system will be implemented, and it will be concentrated once a year. The last time was in March 2022, a total of 31 undergraduate majors were added across the country, involving high -precision majors such as "planet science", "smart global exploration" and "empty sky intelligent electricity promotion technology". At the same time, 804 The reason is that "insufficient source of students, low teaching quality, and poor employment quality."

However, in the past 5 years, a minority, such as "public institutional management", has been concentrated and frequently revoked by colleges and universities. In sharp contrast, the "artificial intelligence" major, with a total of 95 colleges and universities choose to add.

Ye Xiaoyang, a postdoctoral education economics at Brown University, graduated from Peking University undergraduate and master's degree and graduated from the University of Michigan. His research direction for many years is to try to improve students' educational decisions with behavioral economics and artificial intelligence, including how to choose university majors and study the impact of individual destiny.

In his opinion, many universities set up management at the undergraduate stage, which is a "very water" thing in itself. "Do you know what is the most undergraduate major in China? It is a major in business management. 10%of students read this. Professional is even harder. "

Evaluating a professional water, Ye Xiaoyang has a formula, which is "interest+ability+prospect". "See if students are interested in this, they have the ability and skills to improve after learning. If a professional water is said, there is basically no other great gain except for a degree certificate."

Education expert Xiong Bingqi has also evaluated the "public institutional management" major. He said that the reason why this happened was because these colleges and universities had pursued "large and comprehensive" in order to expand the scale and volume, and set up a undergraduate major, but did not have or did not focus on the conditions for these majors. "Professionalism such as public undertakings does not require any full -time teachers and experimental equipment, and it is easier to hold up. Students think they are popular, so they do not worry about enrollment. If you do the characteristics, you can't guarantee the quality. "

But this does not mean that there is no need for public business management.

Compared with comprehensive universities, single -subject colleges, such as medical management management, education business management of normal colleges, and sports management of sports colleges, all belong to the "public institution management" major. Essence For example, Gao Yan's Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics has adhered to a major reason for the establishment of a "public institution management" major for many years, because "this is the only public business management major with financial background in Inner Mongolia."

But even so, Gao Yan still experienced some toss after graduating from undergraduate.

In her junior year, she originally planned to take the postgraduate entrance examination and wanted to get the "industrial and commercial administration" major, but mathematics became an obstacle. Two months before the graduate exam, she was extremely anxious, even crying, and finally changed her mind to decide to go to the company.

For a long time, according to Gao Yan's personality, she has two hands. In college, she did not take the public as her classmates, but used the time in the internship of the enterprise.

She voted a lot of resumes, and in the end, four or five invited her to interview. In the end, she got the OFFER of TCL. This year, in the context of finding difficulties in finding a job this year, it was actually a small probability event.The first time is because of the particularity of TCL. Due to the layout of photovoltaic new energy and semiconductors, the company recruited more than 4,500 graduates -just by Gao Yan.Secondly, the internship experience of the enterprise also played a role, giving her a industry experience."Without these internship experiences, the possibility of getting an offer is estimated to be zero."However, as a graduate of public business management, she is lucky and anxious -many of her colleagues, who are born in administrative management, act on her professional dilemma, and will continue.

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(At the request of the interviewees, Zhang Aige and Kong Mei were pseudonym.)

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