Poster: Analysis of the Differences in Adaptation to Higher Education of the First-Year Engineering and Humanities Students

Abstract

The Bologna process gives unlimited opportunities for modern youth to continue their studies in different countries and increases the mobility of students, yet at the same time creates a problem for quick adaptation and mobility of the student environment. The speed and effectiveness of students’ adaptation largely determines the success of the learning process. The objective of this research is to define the differences in adaptation processes of first-year students of engineering and of humanities to university education. Our hypothesis is that there exists a difference between adaptation of engineering students and adaptation process of students of humanities because of the difference in original skills and competencies. As this research has shown, the lowest score of general adaptation was observed among the male engineering students. Self-assessment of adaptation level among the engineering students (regardless of the gender) is lower than among the humanities students across all the adaptation scales.