Communicative Risks of Student’s Professional Choice of Engineering Programs: a Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The article analyzes the communicative risks in the situation of professional choice. In order to study situations of disproportionate, nonlinear overcoming of information uncertainty in choosing a profession, a comparative analysis of the motives for choosing a place and professional training programs for bachelor of engineering students from two regional universities in Russia and Hungary was carried out. Certain differences were identified in the formation of educational strategies of the Ural and Hungarian students, as well as in ways to overcome the information asymmetry of the choice of a profession.