An Empirical Study On Undergraduate Enterprise Education

Since the advent of IT era, undergraduate enterprise education has been growing into a world-wide trend in higher education. It will become an important concept in the course of Chinese comprehensive construction of a well-to-do society, which helps to accelerate economic development, to abate unemployment pressure, and to promote educational innovation.Xiamen University began the enterprise education at a relative early time. She is at the leading position among most of the universities in China who are exploring and practicing enterprise education for students but still has a distance from experimental ones. Therefore, Xiamen University is a typical example concerning the current status of Chinese university enterprise education. In this dissertation, the author performs a case study of Xiamen University so as to give an illustration of the general situation in China. Moreover, the author tries to find out a reasonable way of carrying out the enterprise education for Chinese universities. This study focuses on four major aspects. They are, undergraduate enterprise education experience in the past, the current status of undergraduate enterprise education, some factors that go against its performing, and the main idea of undergraduate enterprise education. The followings are three major conclusions of this study:1. Generally, the enterprise education for university students in China is still at the beginning stage. Education fails to keep pace with the demand. The supply that enterprise education gives is insufficient and lack of variety. It can neither satisfy students'common nor individual demands. Therefore, universities should strengthen the enterprise education and regard it as a guideline of running schools. All students should be included in the movement.2. Students specialized in different subjects have various demands for enterprise education. They may have some personal requirements as well. Therefore, when putting into practice, we should group it into different levels in diversified classes.3. Statistics shows that only a small group of students choose technological enterprises. There are several reasons. They are, the pressure of obtaining employment in this field, lots of efforts are needed at the prophase, the difficulty in mastering professional skills, etc. Although like this, the author of this dissertation thinks that undergraduate enterprise education should be technology-oriented.This paper, accordingly, advocates that the undergraduate enterprise education should be developed in both universal styles and professional styles. And also, some related problems, such as the inadequate conceptual cognition, the insufficient leaders'emphasis and the lack of management guarantee etc, should be solved. Furthermore, a rapid and profound development of the undergraduate enterprise education must be promoted by drawing on the successful experience from other countries and doing theoretical research and creative practices in our own country.