To study in the United States, we must first make a good choice of employment and degree.

As the first important part of university planning, studying in the United States is the primary concern of students and parents. In the United States, students' major choice does not represent their employment choice. Statistics show that most college graduates are not looking for jobs closely related to their college majors. Successful professionals usually have completely unrelated undergraduate majors in their career choices in the United States, that is, graduate school is usually where students decide their career development direction. Therefore, many graduate students have work experience after work and then return to graduate school for further study. Most professional occupations in the United States require a master's degree. For example, doctors, lawyers, professors and so on all need doctoral degrees. Because in China's education system, students usually look for job opportunities according to their major after graduation. In the United States, students do not need special major choices to enter undergraduate studies. Undergraduate course is to develop all aspects of the individual, and then decide on employment. Therefore, the focus of undergraduate education in the United States is skill training, not instilling professional knowledge.

Skills training may be a strange word for parents and students in China. Students' learning skills (learning skills), time management skills (time management skills), team skills (team effort), imagination skills (creativity skills) and communication skills (communication skills) are all part of skills training. The design of undergraduate education in the United States must focus on these aspects, and schools should also carry out teaching and implement related courses from these aspects. If China students do not make full use of these undergraduate design resources, the possibility of acquiring training skills will be greatly reduced.

A common problem of international students is that they like to choose courses that are easy to get high marks at the undergraduate level. In this way, they can learn the same subjects, rent the same dormitory, go to the same restaurant, do the same teacher's homework and fly back to China. Of course, China students who choose to study in American colleges of arts and sciences may have different requirements, but large comprehensive universities are a paradise for China students, who can easily complete their studies and give up skills training completely. And American immigrants are also a good choice.

The US Department of Labor publishes the occupational distribution, including occupational income, every year. In the United States, the choice of employment is not necessarily based on income, but also on personal hobbies. For example, students who choose to be teachers need to get a certificate, and their future income will definitely be different from that of bankers. But they like children and education, and they will be respected. There are also students who choose bankers Their career will be one of the highest in the future, but they are facing great competition and professional pressure, which needs to be obtained through personal abilities or skills rather than diplomas. Students who choose to engage in non-profit organizations and work for the government hope to have the opportunity to change the lives of society and citizens in the future. Students who choose to be doctors know that they have to complete difficult medical school studies and more difficult internships, and then they have to complete the backlog of loans before they can start their career as doctors. But they like the social status of doctors, like the competition of medical schools, have ambitions and want to help others.

Employment choice and degree design will affect a student's lifetime income in the United States. Studying undergraduate and graduate students is a great investment for every family. Students' employment choice should be a lifelong goal. Whether parents or the government invest in education, students have the responsibility to be responsible for investors. The superiority of the American education system is reflected in the fairness of students' educational opportunities, and few students who are admitted can't afford tuition. Government loans, university scholarships and the support of other non-profit organizations can basically give students an opportunity to invest in themselves. But if you have the opportunity to invest in yourself, you also need to have a correct attitude towards your time and energy. Students who want to get a scholarship must keep their grades above B, and students who want to borrow money have a sense of urgency. Most parents of international students in China will provide unconditional financial aid, and students have little sense of urgency to borrow money.

If the parents' purpose is only to let students get free financial investment, get a diploma that parents are satisfied with, and then do the work arranged by parents, then the personal value of this student is a failure in my opinion. If a student's purpose is to get financial input from his parents and seek personal development, including academic and skill development, then the student can't have employment problems. In the United States, he can gain social experience, have the right to choose the direction of career development, and have the ability to choose a job that suits him. I think the choice of employment may not be the most popular today, or it may not be visible today, but your choice today is indispensable tomorrow.

The so-called major is actually the development of a learning direction. Students can complete the development of learning direction in different ways. For example, many universities have foreign exchange programs and internship programs, and they can freely choose their professional combinations. Students can fill in the cultivation of personal skills according to their personal needs and use the resources of the school to achieve their goals. American college students decide their employment direction through the relationship with professors, internship opportunities set up by universities and the influence of personal family background. The activities that American students take part in in university and the friendship they establish with their classmates will also affect their employment choices to some extent. As a university planning teacher, I think even if a student enters a first-class university, if he doesn't know how to use the resources of the first-class university to improve his personal skills, the final result will not be first-class.