Statistic analysis of the reasons and factors influencing transportation-majored students to change their majors based on chi-square test and p-value test

In recent years, with the development of transportation, many talents want to enter the transportation industry, especially for those undergraduates who want to learn related knowledge for future career planning by switching their majors at school. To help students to solve the problem of switching majors to transportation, a self-administered questionnaire was released to 64 undergraduate and graduate students in Shandong University, to investigate the reasons and their influential factors for switching majors. The collected data were processed by questionnaire star, EXCEL and SPSS, descriptive statistical analysis and significance analysis were conducted by chi-square test and p-value test. It was found that the main reasons for switching majors were good employment prospects and wide development space in the transportation industry. The influencing factors for switching majors were mainly found in the weak basics of related professional knowledge and the decline of teaching quality due to the online teaching mode under the influence of the COVID-19 epidemic.