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That's awesome @chilimatic

Can you list down some, so that others can refer how they function?

@jhardy In Austria you can switch between focus in certain years. If you turn 14 and you did not fail in a class, you can switch school to a so called "HTL" which means "Höherer Teschnischer Lehrgang" which are schools which move away from the general education into an industrial specialication.

In my case I went to an EDV-HTL which is "Elektronische Datenverarbeitung" translates roughly to "working with electrical data". In my school we actually had a corporation with an university so you could add 1 year and you already have your bachelor in CS.

If you finish the school and you worked 3 years you get the "title" "Ing" which translates into "Engineer". you also could got to college instead of working

After you reached the 2nd year of 4 or 5 - if you add the college year. you could specialize media, networking or economics.

The target of the school is to get you ready to run your own company so you have bookkeeping and basic organisational laws as well.

The education is not like the university but you finished learning from microelectronics and controllers to 4 programming languages and an introduction to discrete math :)

@chilimatic @jhardy @brentMeDev we have similar kind of schools in Germany.

I didn't go to such a school (I went to a common, but rather language-oriented school), but I think that they are a good thing! They allow pupils of lower educational schools to get the Abitur and go study at regular colleges which permit entrance from such a specialized school (you won't be able to study psychology if you went to an engineering school). At the same time they deliver a much better preparation for the industrial working world than common schools.

Well, if I had the choice again, I probably would go to the common school, again, since I really valued the variety of different people in my class back then and I imagine that people at specialized schools are more similar in mindset (they all chose the same specialized education after all)

@maruru in austria you can study what you want after you finished :) one of my old school friends became a tatoo artist and studied art :D

@chilimatic well, it's the difference between common Abitur (allgemeines Abitur) and specialized Abitur (Fachabitur). Though you can get the common one just by adding a second foreign language, which you have to study for at least four years (usually French or Latin). So you might be able to get the common Abitur even at a specialized school, if you already had four years of secondary foreign language before. It's so stupid, really :D

it sounds like it :D