Culture's Effects of Chinese International Students Intent on Choosing Their Major/College

This study was concentrated on the students from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Research shows that religion, economy, and history are all primary factors which affect the choices the students make when they choose their majors or colleges. Chinese international students are the object in this project because they comprise the majority of international students in the United States: they are also the greater part of our international student body in UIUC. Though there are many students that arrive on campus knowing exactly their major and careers, the rest of the students don???t, thus this paper be to ready some directions for other international students in their journey toward the path of themselves. In fact, lots of Chinese international students are not determined about what major they are going to pick, instead of choosing with their own will, they are most likely choosing their major under their parents??? expectation. This research paper is meant to give those students who have not determined what their major is going to be. Instead of following parents??? expectations, students themselves should also have their own opinions toward what major most interested them and would like to take in college. All in all, many of the freshmen here do not fully understand the correlation in between their majors and their future career, either affected by their parents??? expectations or not knowing what major best suited them. This research served therefore guide them toward the major they best interested at and will correlate to their future career