Written on the front: The author reviewed the enrollment and admission of 985 colleges and universities in various places this year, and found that these 985 colleges and universities have their own merits and obvious treasure characteristics, so they sprouted the best interest.
This series will share 985 universities around the world, walk into these universities, unveil them, and appreciate their style.
Today's sharing is Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
One of the top universities in China.
In the past ten years of development, the comprehensive strength of Shanghai Jiaotong University has become stronger and stronger. In the ranking of China's Ranking of Universities, the university ranked fourthIn the QS World Rankings, the school is ranked 51st.
In the fifth round of discipline evaluation, the school has 11 A+ disciplines, which is 6 more A+ disciplines than the fourth round of discipline evaluation, and the discipline strength has reached a new level.
This is a comprehensive key university directly under the Ministry of Education. The key disciplines of the school are good at science and engineering, which can be seen in the figure below
This can be seen from the table aboveThe distribution of disciplines in the key construction of the school includes both traditional engineering and current popular engineering, science and medicine, and the layout of science and engineering disciplines is relatively complete.
Such a college with strong academic strength and high comprehensive level is the dream school in the hearts of many candidates. However, when the author inquired about the relevant information, I learned some different information.
Excessive pursuit of grade points (GPA).。Generally speaking, key colleges and universities in science and engineering pay more attention to academic Xi performance, and the academic Xi atmosphere is generally strong.
The school's GPA system is based on absolute grades. The scores, corresponding grades, and grade points of a certain course can be seen in the figure below
It is not easy to get an A+ grade in the subject, and the course is more difficult. However, the students who can be admitted to the school are not of general high quality, and no matter how difficult the course is, there are always a small number of people who can be admitted to the A- grade or above.
However, many students have reported that the difficulty of major and small homework is not ordinary, and they want to cry when they learn, and they have a lot of academic pressure, so they have to show more academic Xi energy than high school to cope with college studies.
In order to get good grades, some of the time during the winter and summer vacations is spent on re-Xi, pre-Xi, and brushing Xi questions, which is the way for students to cope with difficult courses. Those who can enter this school can be said to be the winners of the college entrance examination, and the masters around them are like clouds, and when they come to this school, it is inevitable to face the situation of the paper.
If you Xi average or some students who can't keep up, you really have to do your best to study here.
In such a Xi environment, students who are backward in their Xi are in a difficult situation. According to the students in school, the bottom 30% of students in the Xi ranking have a feeling of not being good here.
The curriculum design and teaching training plan are unreasonable。This is another point that many students are reading.
In terms of curriculum design, the first is that the curriculum arrangement is unreasonable, for example, some courses spend a lot of time to learn, and there is a high probability that they will not be used in the future, and some courses that need to be used are not opened.
Second, the syllabus of the course has not been updated for many years, and in some new subject textbooks, only the content has been updated to the technical level of the 80s, and the teaching content has been out of touch with the current reality for a long time.
In terms of teaching and training plans, changes are very fast, one year and three years. The content of the changes not only involves course selection and credits, but also involves changes in graduation requirements, which students cannot cope with. The rapid change also shows that the training plan has not been fully and thoroughly demonstrated.
The author went to the school's official website to check, and there was the training plan of the college on it, and from 2020 to the present, the annual training plan has been announced. If you are interested, you can go to learn about the verification.
There are also students who mentioned that unlike other school students who recognize the teachers of this school, there are many students in the school who think that the teaching level is not good. Thinking of a key college in the north that I shared before, the vast majority of teachers in the school still maintain the tradition of handwriting boards, teaching seriously and responsibly, and the students' course evaluation mechanism for teachers that is actually being implemented, etc., compared with the two, I suddenly feel that the gap in teaching level is in the first place.
Of course, some of the above situations are not exhaustive, but they can also reflect some of the actual situation. Putting aside the school's famous school filter, it may be possible to look at a school more comprehensively and objectively.
That's all for today's sharing, so that you can think a little more every time you finish reading.