Why do people go to uni if it is a waste of time?

Study a subject they enjoy and then use it to apply to any role that requires an undergrad degree for consideration ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NB. Your friend will probably be more employable than someone with a COMPSCI degree all said and done. Fair play to them.

How is an English lit degree better than a computer science degree?

I didn't say better. I said they'd be more employable.

Because unless you're doing some mickey mouse degree at some bottom tier uni that has no connections and offers no work opportunities it's not a waste of time. You can do many things at university connect with all kinds of people for professional and personal reasons, get work opportunities you'd never have had if you didn't go to university. There's also a lot of people who think doing exams is enough to secure them a future and do a sweet fanny adams about anything else then take to the Internet to whinge once they graduate because they feel bewilidered. You should take these complaints with a pinch of salt because it's very likely the one telling the story is witholding information and not letting you see the full picture.

Do you think they are more employable than someone without a degree?

I'd rather just get leave education as soon as possible because uni and education does seem like it's a waste of time unless it's law or medicine. I know so many people who do go though and they study business marketing, economics, English literature and sociology is a Mickey mouse degree. What next? You can't get a job from studying academics, you are more likely to get a job from vocational studies at uni

I didn't say better. I said they'd be more employable.

I do law. It's not vocational. You don't automatically qualify to practice law once you complete your law degree unlike in the US. You're missing the big picture. University presents you with a lot of opportunities that someone with 2 GCSEs and no other qualifications just wouldn't have or would have to work for a long time to have. It's the student's responsibility to engage with those opportunities. It's not a failing of the individual university or universities as a whole if students choose not to engage with it and don't take those opportunities.

You must be trolling, get out of here.

A computer science degree can easily lead to jobs like software development or any other jobs in the tech industry. Almost every single person from my university who got a BSc/MSc computer science degree is either a graduate software developer or has a job in tech industry.

Where does an English lit degree lead you? English teacher? Author? The only thing English lit students probably know how to do is how to write a 10 page analysis on a useless poem that nobody hears about. I don't see how this makes them more employable. You're chatting nonsense mate.

Are you just trying to make yourself feel better by invalidating other people's choices?

Well I know with apprenticeships there is a lot of competition and a lot of people don't have degrees, they don't waste their time at uni.

Come back to me you’ve spent some time looking at employment figures for COMPSCI grads. A minimum wage donkey from anywhere in the world can rattle out some code. Takes skill to write good copy to a specific audience. Can’t do that from an open plan office in Bangalore.

“Every person from my uni”. Reviewed a few hundred LinkedIn profiles did you? Don’t make me laugh.

Anywhere in the world can rattle out some code. Takes skill to write good copy to a specific audience. Can’t do that from an open plan office in Bangalore.