What is "big category" enrollment? What is the impact of large-scale enrollment?

Large-scale enrollment refers to enrollment according to large-scale disciplines, that is, colleges and universities merge the same or similar disciplines, usually the same department, and enroll students according to a large category. After the students enter the school, after 1 to 2 years of basic training, they are divided into majors according to the principle of interest and two-way choice. For example, some colleges and universities package accounting, financial management, business administration, e-commerce, marketing, human resource management, cultural industry management, property management and other majors into business administration, and package adult literature subjects such as Chinese language and literature, philosophy, history, editing and publishing, and classical philology as a major enrollment. For example, if candidates really want to study accounting, they can fill in their business administration volunteers when they fill in their volunteers, and then try to divert to a specific major to study professional knowledge after enrolling students for one or two years.

Large-scale enrollment has both positive and negative effects on candidates.

On the positive side, large-scale enrollment can avoid the blindness of candidates' volunteering. When choosing volunteers, most candidates are blind in their understanding and choice of major, and may not know the real development prospect of major. After the implementation of large-scale enrollment, students are in no hurry to determine the direction. Through the study of basic knowledge, students gradually have a qualitative understanding of majors, develop their own interests and specialties, and choose their favorite majors independently, which will help students reduce the blindness of choosing majors before entering school.

But on the negative side, large-scale enrollment will be assigned to specific majors after one or two years, so it faces the problem of re-selecting majors. What are the procedures and standards for sophomores or juniors to be diverted to related majors after enrolling students according to major disciplines? Although the practice of each school is different, the practice of most colleges and universities is based on the academic performance ranking after admission 1 to 2 years, and a certain proportion is set for diversion. As a result, the "top students" with the best grades gathered in the "hot majors" and other students were diverted to the "unpopular majors". In this case, if a candidate really wants to study accounting at first and want to enter the business administration class, but because the major is popular, most students in the business administration class want to enter this major, then they will face competition. Once a candidate's academic performance has no competitive advantage, he may be excluded from accounting major.

Even if some colleges and universities take measures to meet students' wishes, almost all students are keen on a few dominant majors such as accounting, financial management and auditing because of the uneven hot and cold majors such as business administration, and the teachers, educational and teaching resources and facilities of these majors do not match the swarming students, so the teaching quality is inevitably "cutting corners". There are as many as five or six thousand undergraduates in some popular departments of finance and economics universities, while some unpopular departments are "left out", which makes some universities "unbearable". Many colleges and universities have changed from the "earliest supporters" of enrolling students according to major disciplines to the "biggest opponents" now.

In addition, it is also a big disadvantage that students enrolled in large-scale enrollment can't make academic planning and career planning earlier because they have the same courses in the previous year or two and have been exposed to professional courses and professional knowledge late.