Hello everyone. I’m an architecture student who’s just finshed sophomore year in China.
I want to take a master degree after my university life in 2027. I don’t want to keep going on architecture for master, a subject crossing with architecture is acceptable, and I hope it’ll be biology, medicine, nursying. And I don’t want to working on anything close to art or design.
So far I haven’t found a possible subject to apply. Could you please give me some advice? thx so so so much!
Have you fulfilled any of the requirements for these other degrees? How do you know you want a masters degree in a subject you haven’t studied?
I do not know if people see this differently in China. However…
To me you apply for a graduate degree because it will help you extend your career in a direction that you want to go.
As an example, suppose that you have a degree in biology and are doing biology research, but to complete your research you need to write software. It turns out that the software is complex and involved, but is very useful. You discover that you are good at writing biology-related software, and you like doing this. You end up with a job writing software that is related to biology. You might in this case consider getting a master’s degree in computer science to supplement your bachelor’s degree in biology.
In your case I am wondering whether a degree in biology or medicine or nursing might supplement a degree in architecture. What is involved in designing a new hospital or medical center or biotech research center? Would it be useful for the architect who designs such as building to also have a degree in medicine or nursing or biology? I do not know. These are not my areas of expertise.
I know quite a few people who got a bachelor’s degree and then got a job. They worked for a while and found that there was a particular area that they were interested in. Then they went back to university and got a graduate degree in the area that they found interesting. However, I do not think that someone else can tell you what area you are going to find interesting. You yourself might not know this for several years.
Sry I forgot to mention. I want to achieve my master degree abroad, like UK, Australia, HK…
Thanks very much for your idea.
I thought about hunting a job after university, and I prefer to work in HK, UK and Australia. Biology and medicine are my interest area when I was a child and I’m quite good at science subjects when I was in middle school.
I was convinced that architecture is interesting by my parents, without searching for more information when I applied it for bachelor degree. But find myself not suit this non-standard judgement system at all very soon after attended.
I suppose that working after getting my bachelor degree is a good choice. While companies in CHN don’t want to give an offer to candidates who don’t have master degrees. And how can I find jobs abroad? Should I send my CV on recruiting websites or contact foreign companies on their websites? Could you please tell me more about this way?
There are some masters degrees, usually in interdisciplinary fields, that don’t necessarily require you to have an undergraduate degree in the same field (international relations is one that springs to mind, depending on college). However most build on your undergraduate major, especially in the STEM subjects like biology etc. I don’t know how Chinese universities work - is it possible for you to change your major to a different field now, even if it means maybe taking an extra year to graduate? That is much more likely to lead to the type of graduate degree you seem interested in.
It is generally pretty difficult to find jobs overseas, in most cases you will need to find a company to sponsor a work visa, which involves a lot of paperwork and money on their part and it is usually not going to happen for a brand new graduate. If you are ok with doing work you do not need a university degree for you can look into things like being an au pair, usually through an agency that will match you with a family and help with visa processes.
I haven’t fulfilled them.
There’re 4 reasons why I don’t want to keep going on this major and want to try a new field that I haven’t studied.
1st, I’m a science subject person who need an exact standard. I don’t like this current major because it feels more like an art subject which cannot be judged by any standard. That means it leaves too much space for imagine as well as unjustice. So it’s so hard to achieve something in this field.
2nd, Hard to find a job and full of rate race in my current industry. The real estate market is leaping down to bottom, no position left for freshman, at least in my country. Though every major’s students are not easy to hunt a job now, not to mention a decent one, architecture students are even harder. And even when we find a job, we’re pushed to work in additional hours. Many young people in this field has been caught by all kinds of sever disease mentally and physically. I don’t want to die for it. And they company pay no attention to their staff’s health, cuz there’s more than 300 people waiting for a job all the time.
3rd, People here in my country seems not need too much asthetic on buildings. Even in an upper going era, people in CHN seems not in need of art, with a super large population, all they want is a place to live, to sleep, without any quality demanding, except for the merely, countable number of occasions like museums and gallerys.
4th, Medical service is strongly needed here, especially nursing the elder, with the comming of aging society.
Thank you very much.
I want to change my major very very very much. But architecture is the top major here in my university and it doesn’t have science major, it’s all about engineering majors. I even considered to quit the current major and apply a new one abroad, but my family doesn’t support me financially.
They are affordable completely, but they just don’t want to. They’re so convinced to the media that saying the government is trying to save real estate by new policies.
In the US and Canada it is very common for students to change their major, particularly after one or two years of university. I attended a university that did not even allow students to pick a major until after their freshman year. Both daughters changed their major at the end of their first year, and did very well in their second or third major (both are currently studying towards their doctorate, one a PhD and one a DVM).
When a student studies something that they find very interesting and that they are good at, that will help them to do very well in the subject.
At least here in North America changing your major can usually be done at the same university, but sometimes if taking on a major that the current university is not good at a student may change universities as well.
I am not sure how this is done in China. I do not know much about your education system.
In principle it should be possible to transfer from a university in China to a university in North America. The biggest problem might be that education is expensive over here, there is relatively limited funding for international students, and at most universities funding is more difficult to obtain for transfer students.
Can you not change to another university in China that does have the major you want to change to? Why do you feel you need to go abroad to change your major?
Is your family willing to support you getting a graduate degree abroad? While some graduate degrees are funded, that is usually is because the student has an undergraduate degree in the subject already and can step in to help teach and tutor. Anyone applying to be a graduate student in a subject different from what they studied undergrad will have to pay.
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