Freshmen-to-be weigh up their major options

Experts caution about blindly choosing 'trendy' disciplines as industries fluctuate

As high school graduates begin to consider which universities and majors they should choose, experts have cautioned that they shouldn't simply go after the current trendy courses.

With students who took the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, already learning their scores, parents and students are racking their brains to plan their futures.

Zhang Xuefeng, founder of education company Fengxue Weilai, advised students to choose majors with high barriers to entry. Before that, he triggered a heated debate on microblogging platform Sina Weibo about whether journalism is a good major or not after he said he would beat his child if the child decided to study journalism at college.