| In recent years, as a result of college expansion, the unemployment problem of college graduates is becoming more and more serious. Facing the tight employment situation, many college students choose to enter graduate school to escape from working pressure.The motivations of local agricultural college students to enter graduate schools are varied, but basically as followings:to pursuit better career prospects; to achieve higher education background; to meet the parents’ expectations; to enter famous universities; and to follow the trend blindly. Besides, the motivation is influenced by the major, gender,source of the students and so on. It has profound social background to the phenomenon. It is influences by various factors:First, the social factors, mainly focus on the market economy system and the reform of employment system for college students; Second, school factors, including learning objectives guide, major setups, and so on; Third, family factors, which comprises of two aspects:parents’ requirements and expectations as well as family economic basis; Four, personal factors, as students are lacking of self-consciousness and worshiping large cities blindly,and so on.The graduate mania is common among college students. However, along with the over-enthusiasm comes many problems.First, with improper purpose and motivation for entering graduate school, college students may neglect their studying in undergraduate schools which certainly is not a desirable outcome. Besides, it may increase the economic burden for the family. Then,some students are blindly pursuing some certain universities or popular majors. Moreover, taking too much time to prepare for entering the graduate school is insignificance. To deal with these problems, efforts should be taken from all areas as society, universities, families and students themselves. As far as society is mentioned, the government can control macroscopically and make rules and laws to promote the employment of college students. Meanwhile, the employers should develope their conception on employment. As for universities, they should balance the discipline construction, emphasize on the comprehensive quality of students, guide students to make study programming. In terms of students themselves, they should have a reasonable attitude towards the relationship between education background and employment, so that they can have a reasonable goal for their life,and achieve it correctly.Analysis on the phenomenon of graduate mania in local agricultural college in new circumstances is meaningful in many aspects. It is helpful for the colleges to understand the psychological tendency of their students. It is helpful for the colleges to set up curriculum reasonably and promote the teaching levels. It is helpful in rational distribution of education resources. It is help for students to have a proper positioning of themselves and realize their own value correctly. |