A Study of the College Graduates’ Educational and Vocational Aspiration in Taiwan

• Main Authors: KUO TSAI YUN, 高彩雲
• Other Authors: 林寶山
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68573122340675291112

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 91 === The purposes of this study are to examine the willingness of advanced study and getting a job of graduating students in science and technology universities of Taiwan.The graduates of ninety-two academic year are selected technique by stratified random sampling. The total samples are consists of twelve hundred students from six schools were investigated with questionnaires. Effective samples are nine hundred and eighty-seven. The conclusions of the study are as follows, 1.The students of science universities have strong wish to pursue a higher degree after graduating. The most of the educational background they want to get is at less a master''s degree. The attitude toward education of the students and their parents influence the decision of entering a higher school greatly. But students themselves are the key men deciding to obtain a higher degree or get a job. 2.The students are not very interested in what they major in, and have no confident of the skills that they learn. They believe that undergraduate’s opportunities of getting a job are lesser than graduates’. Most students plan to pursue a higher degree when they entered the junior year. 3.Good salaries, working environment and promotion are the main factors the students consider when they choose a job. The study makes suggestions as follows, 1.Students should make use of the resources of schools actively, and have proper concept of advanced study and getting a job. The students who would like to enter graduate school should estimate their abilities first. They could get a job accumulating experience first if they are not suitable to enter graduate school, and then hane advanced study later. The students would like to get a job should estimate that their abilities is qualified to the field of occupation. 2.Parents should have proper educational expectations and attitude. 3.School guidance personnel should give freshmen tests in aptitude and interest, and investigate the juniors’ willingness of entering a graduate school and get a job. Besides, they should publish a handbook of advanced study and career planning and hold related speeches and fairs. 4. Follow-up study could extend its object of compare study to graduated students and comprehensive university students and the students of science & technology institutes.