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Which Course Should I Choose? – A perfect guide for confused students

Every year, millions of students across India ask themselves the same question: which course should I choose? If you’ve landed here, chances are you’re also caught in that spiral of Google searches, family discussions, and late night overthinking. We’re here to tell you that this apprehension and confusion are completely normal.
Your choice of stream and program after your schooling goes beyond lessons, teachers and assignments. The choice lays more impetus on your future career, your mental satisfaction and happiness and even the quality of life you will lead for the next few years. With over 16 years of experience, even we wrestle with this question on a daily basis and strive to find new and innovative answers for our students.
However, this vast experience is enough for us to quickly tackle this question and guide students in the right direction. Let me share with you some highly actionable and meaningful measures that will lead you to choosing the right course. Needless to say, whether you want to study abroad or study in India itself, choosing the right course is equally important.

The Proven Approaches to Choosing the Right Courses

Turn the Script Around

Firstly, the question “which course should I choose?” is redundant. Perhaps, the better question is “what excites me?”. Imagine you have a free day and no rules. Do you find yourself listening to or playing music, out on the field, writing stories, fixing gadgets, drawing, teaching, solving puzzles, or maybe organizing everyone else’s plans? These everyday habits are the real indicators of the best program that suits your skills.

If you can spend hours editing videos without getting bored, creative media might be the path. Perhaps courses in animation or VFX are your true calling. Similarly, if you can delve into the intricacies of each and every topic for hours, maybe research is your calling.
If you enjoy challenging problems of logic and love breaking them down, perhaps mathematics and data science are your destiny. Similarly, if you are the one friend that everyone comes up to for advice, maybe counselling or psychology is the field for you.
If you reflect and look internally instead of pondering upon external pressures, you’ll find it much easier to narrow down career options for students that actually make sense. However, it is not about simply going for what you think is your calling. You must also assess the future prospects for the path you are about to take.

Look Past the Big Three

Yes, medicine, law, and engineering often dominate family conversations. Trust us, we completely understand. But the world has changed and has become infinitely more dynamic.
Today, there are plenty of programs that lead to successful and interesting careers and the best program is no longer the most popular one. It’s the one that feels organic to your skills and personality. It enables you to prosper and you often lose yourself while studying it.

Let’s look at a few programs that are powerful but often fly under the radar. 

  • Sports management for those who live and breathe competitive sport but can’t necessarily participate on the field. 

  • Digital marketing for creative individuals who enjoy mixing technology with communication.

  • Hospitality management for people who thrive in social environments and identify people as their strength.

  • Nutrition and dietetics for those who enjoy science and want to promote healthier lifestyles.

So whenever you’re asking yourself about the best course for my skills, depending on what drives you, these may be your answers. In fact, we dwell in an era where the expanse of unconventional careers is broadening each day.
Having said that, there are hundreds of options to look at when you see beyond traditional choices. Prompt engineering, neuromarketing, and retail design are only a few names from the plethora of unconventional careers.

Understand the Relationship between Courses and Careers

I strongly believe in the universal truth that a course is not the final destination. It’s the bridge. The modern student is most afraid of limitations and does not want to lock themselves out of career opportunities by investing crucial years into a single stream of academics. However, that’s not how professions work any more.
Almost all careers are now extremely flexible with overlapping skills and students are finding it increasingly easy to switch careers or academic pathways as per their interests through career counselling. In fact, effective career counselling is essential to both choosing the right course and the career path, whether you’re starting out or looking to switch. They even do this multiple times.

So instead of stressing endlessly over which course I should choose, look at career options for students tied to that course. Besides, seek professional help from credible career counsellors. To make things more exact, here are three things you can ask yourself when trying to gauge a program’s utility:

  • Which jobs or roles could this course lead me to?

  • Does that lifestyle excite me?

  • Could it lead to different roles as industries change, which they most certainly will?

Let’s apply this to computer science careers. If you think of computer science as a course option, you should ask yourself, what roles can you pursue after studying computer science? Would these roles really excite you and will they be sustainable during industry shifts?

Have a Conversation with the Right People

On many occasions, students try to figure it all out alone or rely only on family advice. This is an error. While your parents and friends want the best for you, they may not always know the global education landscape. This is where course counselling changes everything.
Good course counselling doesn’t just hand you a list of subjects. It tells you about your strengths, your weaknesses, your ambitions, your personality, and even your financial situation. This is where Silver Fern’s counselling expertise comes in where we focus on creating a customised plan highlighting realistic and optimal career options for students.
This is the advantage of professional counselling, where our advice is based on facts, the success of previous students, university support and industry research. In fact let’s say you want to study in Canada or any other country, a good career counsellor will guide you with country-specific knowledge of careers.

One Size Seldom Fits All

When you’re a young student at 17 or 18, life is full of options, surprises, second chances and diversity. The list of variables at this stage is never-ending and thus, a one size fits all approach cannot possibly work for everyone. The most successful people usually never know the perfect program for themselves right after school.
They experiment and find out with the right support and guidance. The most important factor is that you start early in shortlisting the best courses for your skills and take action for genuine growth.
Your course is only a launchpad, not a life sentence.

Looking Ahead

We firmly believe in the uniqueness of every student. When you’re caught in the loop of “which course should I choose?”, you have to consider a bouquet of options and these options must cater to your skills, your interest and the opportunities that are in front of you. If you still feel unsure, that is where we come in. Reach out to us for all your answers!
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