Research on Ideological Education and Employment Attitude of Students in Engineering Programs Transferring from Junior College to Bachelor's Degree: Current Situation, Challenges and Optimization Paths

With the vigorous development of higher vocational education in China and the deepening of the concept of continuous learning, the education of upgrading from junior college to undergraduate has become an important channel for cultivating high-level technical and skilled talents. As a special student group, engineering students upgrading from junior college to undergraduate not only have practical experience accumulated during their junior college stage but also have a strong expectation to enhance their theoretical level and professional competitiveness through undergraduate studies. However, this group faces unique challenges in terms of ideological cognition, academic adaptation, and career planning. This paper aims to take three consecutive cohorts of engineering students upgrading from junior college to undergraduate at Southwest Forestry University as the research sample, deeply analyze the group characteristics of these students, dissect the prominent problems existing in their ideological education and employment attitudes, and systematically propose effective paths to optimize ideological education and employment guidance from the dimensions of educational subjects, educational content, and educational models, with the expectation of promoting the comprehensive, healthy, and high-quality growth and development of this group.