Strategies for Construction of Majors in Universities with Different Characteristic Based on Social Needs

We used the basic principles of game theory to investigate development strategies for standards of professional competence in universities in the same geographic area, under conditions of non-uniform distribution of social demand preference. The results revealed that, under various conditions in our model, different approaches for differential strategies were selected by university U₂ compared with university U₁. Specifically, in the competition between U₁ and U₂, there is a differential strategy compression point of U₂ to U₁; When U₂ universities choose the biggest differentiation strategy, university U₁ also have differentiated strategy control points. Arbitrary decision-making of university U₁ in relation to university U₂ was based on the requirements of professional competence standards, according to the change of the social demand for professional competency standard, universities U₂ will adopt the strategy of “no difference”, “maximum differentiation” and “comprehensive intermediate strategy”, respectively. The current results have theoretical implications for the selection of professional development and professional competence development strategies in asymmetric universities operating in the same geographic area.