Do a STEM degree if you want a job

Not really, no. It's the finance, business, retail jobs that will go first. For example, jobs in financial markets trading have already been automated to a large extent. Accounting will also be automated heavily in the future. STEM jobs require more skills and therefore are harder to automate.

What a load of *******s. Any degree in History, English, Philosophy, Geography, Theology, Languages etc. from a top 20 uni is more than enough to qualify you for a huge range of very well paid, respected professions. From accountancy to law, from management consultancy to MI5. Seriously, do some research. Many businesses don't want to hire an entire workforce of interchangeabe, socially inept, uncommunicative, unimaginative STEM drones. Business, people forget, is primarily something done between people, for people. Hence why most of the senior management positions in business and the civil service are dominated by non-STEM students.

Right, so you've researched every single thing you can do with every single non-STEM degree?

My sister did a non-STEM degree. She walked right out of uni into a job.

What degree did she do? I'm curious

tbf, no one forced you to read/agree with OP

well that's funny because people who studied modern foreign languages degrees are some of the most employable graduates out there...

If you're going to form an argument, it might suit your narrative if you refrain from blanket statements and unfounded accusations.

According to Which, the top ten degree disciplines in accordance to average starting salaries were: Dentistry, Medicine, Maths, Chemical Engineering, Marine Technology, Economics, Aerospace Engineering, Statistics and Veterinary Science. With the exclusion of Economics, all of the aforementioned disciplines can be categorised in the STEM group.

Your saying that STEM students are "socially inept" and "uncommunicative" is immature and unfounded. If you have any evidence that STEM students are social pariahs then feel free to provide evidence for it, otherwise refrain.

Again, the notion that non-STEM degree disciplines dominate senior management positions is another unfounded myth. If you have any evidence to the contrary, again, feel free to provide evidence for it.

Psychology. She worked in the nhs for a while and news in a prison.

STEM degrees give you proper skills that will get you a good job, as long as you're not an idiot in social situations. And those careers are less likely to be automated, unlike finance, banking, business, retail which are already replacing humans with AI.

So don't just do what you enjoy. Do something that will get you a job that's future proof.

I often feel that with STEM it's not as important where you gain your degree, whereas with art degrees it is essential. Of my siblings, my sister who studied history at Durham is doing the best financially. My other siblings studied STEM and earn ~ a third of what she does. She works for a law firm in London, and earns an insane amount. She loves her job and finds it extremely stimulating. Her history class mates have gone on to incredibly diverse and interesting careers. Now, if she had studied history at say... Liverpool (a respectable red brick university, but not the 'standard' of Durham/Oxbridge) she would have struggled to break into law in London - she admits it herself.
The STEM 'master race' rhetoric is complete nonsense and I advise anyone and everyone to ignore it. What people on this website can't seem to grasp is that a degree isn't everything, employers just don't care that much, they really don't. They want hard working, social individuals who can function within a team. I know plenty of successful people who have studied STEM and the arts.
I myself plan to apply to Oxford to study history, as well as Durham, York etc... I do not worry one bit about my career prospects. I want to study history because that's where my passions lie - whilst at university I can intern etc and find what I want to do. The only thing I will say is that STEM degrees are more vocational, so you can go to a lower ranking institution and still find a graduate job. For arts subjects, that is less likely. If you can get into a top 10 university, you have nothing to worry about.

Why? Many of them are not competitive with European citizens who speak multiple languages at a greater level and certainly cannot hope to learn asian languages such as Mandarin within the space of 3-4 years.

In today's world, graduate jobs are highly competitive and there are loads and loads of people with generic degrees like history or politics. Meanwhile, the engineering tech sectors are hiring and are future proof careers as well.

In the near future, more and more jobs will become automated. The ones that won't be are STEM jobs like engineering or tech or life sciences related stuff. So it is a very stupid idea to do a non-STEM degree now since you will be out of a job in the future and will also a truffle to even get a job in the first place, as shown by the large number of humanities students working in McDonald's.

STEM degrees give you proper skills that will get you a good job, as long as you're not an idiot in social situations. And those careers are less likely to be automated, unlike finance, banking, business, retail which are already replacing humans with AI.

So don't just do what you enjoy. Do something that will get you a job that's future proof.