abstract: although all university majors are prominent and the necessity of their presences is of no question, they might not have the same priority basis considering different resources and strategies that could be spotted for a country. this paper focuses on clustering and ranking university majors in iran. to do so, a model is presented to clarify the procedure. eight different criteria are ...

College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage and employment data from the Current Population Survey...

Recent calls to action urge sweeping reform in science education, advocating for improved learning for all students-including those majoring in fields beyond the sciences. However, little work has been done to characterize the differences-if any exist-between students planning a career in science and those studying other disciplines. We describe an attempt to clarify, in broad terms, how non-ST...

Application-oriented University course refers to the type of applied technology as orientation running a school, which requires all majors closely combine local characteristics, pay attention cultivation students' practical ability, and embody word "application" from construction teaching system. Molecular Biology, core biotechnology specialty, has undergone series reform construction, aiming a...

Labor practice courses and projects can help students transform theory into practical operations, especially in engineering majors. In addition, collaborating with enterprises also gain more opportunities be helpful for future employment. However, carrying out labor education is not an easy task. Some may think that these activities are related to their major or they a waste of time. Therefore,...