After years of working hard, you’re finally ready to take the next step in your journey as a student—college. But while you’re excited to take on this new chapter, you also have to admit that you’re getting confused on the course that you should take.

Don’t worry because these tips will help you finally decide the right course for you in college:

• Think about the things that you’re most passionate about.

Here’s the thing: taking a course in college will require more focus, persistence, and patience. And the only way you can last those years in college is if you’re passionate about what you’re trying to learn and the career that you’re trying to build.

So the first step to deciding what course to take is to look back at where your passion is. For instance, if you’ve always been interested in taking care of the sick and learning about different medical conditions, then a bachelor of nursing would be a good fit for you. On the other hand, if you’re interested in math, construction, and calculations, then engineering would be a great course to take.

• Think about how much time you want to spend in school.

Different courses have different time requirements, so one course may require you to spend two years in college while others will require four years or more. Go back to your goals in the next few years and determine how much time you’re willing to spend studying in school. This will help you choose a course that fits within that timeline, so you can stay on track with what you want to achieve.

• Think about your preferred style of learning.

Are you a verbal or quantitative type of learner? This will help you decide a course that will fit your preferred style of learning. For instance, if you like math, solving problems, computations, and just numbers in general, you’re a quantitative type of learner who would fit best in engineering or IT courses. On the other hand, if you’re more of a language-based learner, you’d do great in the arts.

• Think about the difficulty of learning.

 The truth is, some courses are harder to learn, study, and pass than others. It’s up to you if you’re willing to invest in the time, effort, and sacrifice to make things happen for you. For instance, some fields of studies like medicine and engineering are notoriously tough to pass, which means that those students who take up these courses have a higher risk for failure. So if you’re passionate enough to take that risk, you need to condition yourself for the tough road ahead. But if you don’t want to put too much pressure on yourself, then you can settle for easier courses that don’t demand a lot from students.

At the end of the day, you need to decide on a course based on your passion and goal for the future. Because if you know exactly what you want, it’s easier to get through college no matter how tough the road is.