The state of career guidance in ‘engineering’ universities

Abstract

The article analyzes the state of career guidance work in universities that provide training in engineering specialties. A sample of 24 Russian universities was formed and then, based on the analysis of the websites of those universities, three groups of universities were formed: universities with poor, average and high levels of career guidance. It turned out that half of the universities have a poor and average level of career guidance in the sample, half of the universities have a high level of work with applicants and schoolchildren and carry out not only informing about the specialties of the university, but also form an interest in engineering. These universities, along with traditional methods of career guidance, develop and implement innovative forms of work with schoolchildren (quantoriums and houses of scientific collaboration). Universities with a high level of career guidance are transformed into educational agglomerates of continuing education (school – college – university). The paper explained the reasons for the lack of a large range of career guidance work in half of engineering universities. It is a lack of funding and a personnel issue. Ways of solving issues are proposed.