Most overrated degree in your imo?

I looked at moving to Germany and found the reputed higher salaries must be skewed by the number of engineers in management as they certainly weren't doubling the UK rates from my anecdotal experience.

Oh the ignorance. If you'd read what I said carefully, you'd have seen that I mention how the pool of graduates is whittled down. Latin is bloody hard, Ancient Greek is... Have you seen ancient greek? For A level not only are there a few thousand words of vocab to learn, reels of grammar tables to memorise and pages of literaure to know off by heart, it doesn't even use our letters for god's sake. As such, the number of people doing classic languages is whittled down and down and down. How many people do you know doing both Latin and Ancient Greek A Level? Exactly. They have 200 applications because there are only 200 people in the country good enough, and they have 100 places to fill, hence the high acceptance ratio. And, no, with a BA Oxon in Classics, doors open for you in MC Law firms, investment banks, the top levels of the Civil Service, programming, accountancy... The works. Perhaps you couldn't be an engineer or a doctor. That's about it. Why am I even arguing for this? It's a degree for members of the ruling class to assert their dominance with. Perhaps they're secretly happy that people like you don't even know what they're up to.

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While I perhaps underestimated it's quality, it seems comparable to other degrees from other good universities. It doesn't seem to, based off stats, open doors to the firms you've mentioned.

Memorisation, again, doesn't make you "among the brightest minds". It's not a coincidence that most of the people considered among the brightest in history were physicists/mathematicians eg Einstein, Da Vinci etc.

how can a degree be overrated? kind of a weird thing to overrate, seeing as everyone's experience is different and there's no set outcome for anything ever

You know stats are based off of what people choose to do and not what they could do?

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I think in this instance, it means a degree, by those non-privy to how things work, that is perceived to lead to direct employment success for everyone doing that degree when in actuality it's not the case.

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why have so many people cited medicine as the most overrated degree? it does lead to direct employment success..

Who wouldn't want to get into those firms though? Surely on 9/10 occasions you're going to try and get the best opportunities you can. It's unlikely that they just decided to get a decent desk job without trying out any other ambitious choices first.

Actually, that is highly likely and arts/humanities grads are more susceptible to doing this than stem/business/econ.

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Would've thought the "brightest minds" of Oxford would've been more ambitious, but never mind.

I can only liken it to judging someone's success in finance on whether they work in the front office of Goldman Sachs.

I would say psychology. The amount of people who applied to psychology from my college for this year was massive. I feel like for a lot of people it's a degree that you take if you don't exactly know what to do but you still want to do a science degree and for that reason psychology is oversubscribed.For some jobs however eg psychologist, psychology is necessary.