Most overrated degree in your imo?

Anyone who mentions economics but not PPE is very likely to not actually know anything about economics.

Oh and at OP, management or business studies.

I have got an A* in A-level econ, and although it isn't comparable to a degree, quite a few of my friends are doing it at a good university and say that you can blow one's head off with a shotgun and he still will have enough mental capacity to get a 2:1 in it.

I actually found Medicine to be a considerably harder degree than Physics, for that very reason. Physics is conceptually more difficult but the volume is manageable, so even if you're struggling to understand things, you have time to work through it and wrap your head around it. Medicine involves memorising such a ridiculous amount of information that I really struggled (and still struggle) to contain it all. There's also the practical and social elements of Clinical Medicine that don't feature in other courses. Sitting down with a difficult equation is a very different challenge to telling a parent that their young child is going to die

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.

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x1000. law.

Most intellectually overrated: medicine by far. A degree where most of the holders consider themselves the cream of the crop but it really is more about memorisation than difficult concepts.

My point is, it doesn't matter which degree one does in those fields and maths isn't the 'premier' option for most roles in finance, you may be right that it is indeed the premier option for a few roles

But anyway, who cares.

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I know, it is called hyperbole, look it up

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Maths is exceptional for every job within finance and there are some jobs that can only be done by mathematicians/engineers/chemists..

Who do you think trading houses hire?

No offense, but you don't really know what you're talking about. Classics, prior to PPE (its reboot) was known as 'The Greats'. Unlike all other Oxford BAs, it lasts four years, not three. Why? Because Oxford designed it as the ultimate degree. It is the academics' academic degree, covering the highest level of Ancient Greek, Latin, Ancient Literature, Ancient History and Philosophy in the country. Naturally, only a select few are accepted, and only a few apply (unlike any other subject, the application pool is whittled down from age 11 to 18 - so only the brightest minds apply for it at university). Just look at the civil service (MOD, FCO etc.), all the most senior positions are dominated by Literae Humaniores graduates.

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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yeah, hence 'for some'. Jane Street don't do the same things as a vanilla rates desk at Citi does, most people good with numbers (you don't have to study a numerical degree to be good with numbers) can do the latter but not the former.



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How is learning galois theorem ever going to help you balance a financial statement? Or set up a very simple DCF model that a 12 year old could probably set up?

Finance is quite helpful actually.
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So can you just confirm:

With Maths you can get any finance role.

With almost all other degrees certain quantitive avenues are closed.

As such Maths is the best degree to get into finance.

Mostly correct. Although it sometimes depends on what type of field you're heading into in finance. Mathematicians have a marked advantage when it comes to understanding stochastic analysis and more mathematically demanding prerequisites.

Plus, stop putting down Galois Theory! Wonderful subject