Where to go after high school? To college! Today, interest in secondary vocational education is high, and it is precisely among specialists who have received higher education. This is due to several reasons, general or personal. But after entering a higher educational institution after a university, many questions arise, because this choice is not typical. But if you decide, collect documents for college. The process is not complicated, especially for those who have already once become a student.
How to enter college after high school
If you decide to get a secondary specialty as a second education, analyze the employment market of your city and region: what specialties have been in demand for several years, what conditions the employer has been offering, and what salary.
What to look for:
- If you have decided on a specialty, start acquaintance with colleges. Usually, all of them hold open house days for applicants several times a year and similar meetings aimed at attracting applicants. Visit them.
- Also look at the reviews about the educational institution, rating, scientific base, try to find out the level of competence of teachers and information about the organization of professional practice.
It is very important to collect all these certificates so that later, having entered and started to study, to avoid annoyance and frustration on any of the points. What will suit yesterday's schoolchildren may not be enough for you, as a specialist with a diploma and, possibly, with work experience. If you want to get knowledge, not a “crust”.
Diploma entry - possible?
Admission is possible according to the results of the certificate of graduation from high school, admission to the diploma of higher education is also not forbidden. Mostly colleges and technical schools are accepted without entrance exams, but there are a number of institutions, for example, in creative specialties, where tests are provided.
And remember: special disciplines begin to be taught already in the 1st year of college, and not from the third, as in universities. Do not rely on a “preferential” admission to the 2-3rd course.
All evidence of your professional merits - thanks and letters - are not needed, you can’t collect the portfolio.
College Documents
Applicants to college must write a statement stating their name, date of birth, passport information, as well as their previous level of education with the presentation of a document confirming this fact or qualification.
You should indicate the specialty you want to enroll in, the form of training, and whether you need a hostel.
It is usually necessary to provide the original education and qualification documents.
Therefore, do not be scared and do not rush to be indignant if, in addition to the school certificate, you are asked to show a diploma in the selection committee. Sometimes on the forums there are comments about unsuccessful attempts to hide the fact of higher education. It makes no sense, a graduate has the right to go to college. No need to hide the presence of higher education.
They will also be asked to attach a photo to the documents for admission to college, for exiting applicants - an extract from the work book.
How to choose a college and specialty
First decide on the goal: why do you need a college? If you want to change the sphere of professional activity, to master a specialty that is in demand and highly paid, maybe there will be enough courses for such a step? If you clearly understand that it is precisely the secondary specialized education that is needed, and you won’t be hired without a document on getting it, go to college.
Look for a college with correspondence courses in your chosen specialty or offering evening study. It’s at least strange if a specialist with higher education starts attending full-time classes without working anywhere.
To college after high school - paid?
Another common misconception of online forums is about paying for a second, but secondary vocational education. Allegedly, the right is given only to receive one free education, and if you studied at the university on a budget, then you have completely exhausted this right. But this is not so.
After high school, you can become a student of vocational school without paying tuition. This is confirmed by the norms of the Russian Federation on education, which say: if a citizen did not receive education at this level previously free of charge, then he has the right to free access to secondary vocational education. Of course, if the competition takes place under the terms of the college.
College Benefits
In some cases, the choice of secondary education as the second education is really justified.
Benefits:
- easy entrance tests;
- professional skills;
- short training period.
In colleges, the competition is not as big as in universities. Moreover, if you did not go to the budget group, the cost of training is tens of thousands lower than at the university. And the rating of a secondary university is equal to the rating of a good college.
In three years you will receive a new specialty, and if your college works in conjunction with an enterprise where students undergo practical training, the chance of finding a job increases. Modern secondary vocational education is actively involved in integrated integrated programs with potential employers. College students undergo internship at the enterprise, whose representatives are included in the final attestation commission or supervise students' qualification projects. Thus, most graduates of such a college are employed.
You will receive a new specialty in college in two or three years. At the university, this period doubles.
Are there any privileges
It is a mistake to think that there will be concessions in college and a serious approach to study is not required. If you want to get knowledge, then you will have to try the same way as in a university. But an indisputable plus is that in colleges there are few common objects. In addition, they may be optional. Contact the college administration to release you from such activities. Usually go to meet, if there is a diploma. It remains only to write a statement.
But special items in college should not be missed. The vocational education system in Russia has not yet “rocked” like the school system, therefore, in colleges, a commitment to a serious approach in the study of specialized disciplines has remained.
Students are required to complete the practice. And this is also a good plus. You will test the theory in action and, perhaps, your zeal will be noticed and invited to work. In any case, there will be so many practical exercises that when you find work in a new specialty, you will not experience confusion.
Disadvantages of training in colleges
The very first of these is misunderstanding. Surely not very close people to you, or maybe close ones, will not be able to evaluate your decision and understand correctly. Most often, such a position rests on the belief: if you have a higher education, there is nothing more to learn. You just need to move up the career ladder.
College education is given narrowly. And if you are attracted to do science, go to graduate school.
Difficulties may arise with teachers, but they are not critical. Teachers of secondary vocational schools are used to teaching ninth graders and eleventh graders, they are used to communicating with them at a certain level, and you should come to terms with this or not pay attention. If there are extremes, just talk with the teacher - adults will always understand each other's arc. However, if you are invited to take part in any quest or in “Come on, guys!”, Then maybe you should not refuse immediately. Discharge to students, you yourself know how it is needed and useful.
Do I need to go to college after high school
In the USSR, at first it was customary to get a profession in a technical school or school. Only then, after working for several years, did they go to enter an institute or university. Especially so often obtained from technical specialists. Then they sent to universities so that, for example, a talented engineer could become the director of the plant. However, today in small towns there are directors without higher education who successfully manage factories and enterprises. Often, they began their career with an ordinary master.
In the nineties, when the country changed, landmarks were also rebuilt. They proclaimed the thesis that without higher education they won’t be hired, and only losers study at vocational schools. But such a position could not stand reality, including economic. It became difficult for university graduates to find work by profession, and in technical schools there was a shortage with the continuing demand for working specialties. Therefore, many became interested in how to enter college after high school.
The probability of finding work in a specialty after college is higher than after a university. And so for several years. It’s very unproductive for five or six years to study at a university, get a profession and ... never go to work on it. The choice of the second specialty is usually approached more carefully.