Open AccessAn Analysis of Field Preferences of an Educational System
Author(s) -
Anna Ćwiąkała-Małys,
Monika Mościbrodzka
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
wroclaw review of law, administration and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2084-1264
DOI - 10.2478/wrlae-2019-0002
Subject(s) - popularity , field (mathematics) , job market , psychology , demographic economics , mathematics education , demography , sociology , social psychology , economics , mathematics , engineering , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , pure mathematics
It is the labour market that decides about the popularity of a field of studies. The area where the highest number of job offers appears is reflected in the offers of universities. However, it is very often mentioned in many media that future students decide to choose social and humane studies whose market chances are evaluated on a relatively low level. In the past 10 years, because of the decrease in the birth rate, the number of Polish students at various universities declined to about 700,000 people. In these years, it was observed that the number of studying men and women declined (to almost 30%). The lowest decrease in the number of students was observed at technical universities because of the fact that, at that time, the number of female students increased there. The group of female students constitutes the one that has increased in numbers in the past 10 years. The authors of this article, using a multidimensional comparative analysis method, conducted a research on studying field preferences of female students, which is a dominant group of people studying at Polish universities.