Freshmen Recruitment of Civil and Construction EngineeringPrograms in Polytechnic Education Due to Increase in Capacity and Diversification of Admission Procedures

• Main Authors: Fu-Mei Chang, 張富美
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60923984840342019167

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 營建工程系碩士班 === 91 === ABSTRACT Polytechnic education has been flourishing in the past ten years in Taiwan. Not only the number of universities and colleges are more than doubled also the student enrollment is increased significantly. This trend eases the competition for high school graduates who used to work very hard in order to get admitted into universities and colleges. In the mean time, the job market seems to be unable to absorb those who with bachelor degrees. Take the construction business as an example, the downturn of economics and the globalization of competition shift the balance between demand and supply for the workforce. College graduates from civil and construction engineering and architecture face greater competition for getting the first job in the construction business. As a result, the quality of freshmen in the departments of civil and construction engineering and architecture gets worse in recent years. Some of the polytechnic colleges even cannot recruit enough students for construction-related programs. This study aims to collect the statistics for graduates from vocational high schools and their opportunities for entering polytechnic universities and colleges. The statistics of general population and construction-related jobs will also be analyzed such that the demand and supply in the future workforce can be better understood. The result shows that more than 33% of the construction-related programs in polytechnic universities and colleges may face steep competition in recruiting new students in five to eight years.