Worth paying £9000 a year to go to Sheffield Hallam?

Sheffield Halam is my 1st choice, and you won't pay £9,000.
Only the Russell Howard group are likely to charge fees of £9,000, therefore if you applied to Sheffield uni then you'd expect to pay something like that.
Film studies?
Unless you think that it will better yourself for your future, even if it's £6,000 a year, that's a lot of money if it doesn't really benefit you.

Haha. That god damn comedian.

If you want to do Film Studies, don't do it at Hallam. There are plenty of Russell Group unis that do Film - Warwick, Leeds and Nottingham to name a few, and they have pretty lowish entry requirements. And Nottingham has alumni links with Fox Searchlight, the Juno people, and some of the Film students got internships in the US.

A lot of your future employment prospects do rest on reputation of the university, courses don't matter as much really as most employers don't care what degree you did (unless you want to be a doctor or something like that, then it would help to maybe get a medical degree! ), despite what most on TSR are saying. I say go for a good uni for your course because it will be worth the money.

Oh god no.

The reason we're in this mess is because Labour thought it would be a good idea to send everyone to uni to Sheffield Hallam and Nottingham Trent to do Sociology and Film Studies etc.

People can argue till they're blue in the face but Film Studies and the like simply aren't acedemic subjects. Hence they don't belong in a University. I'm not saying they aren't worthy pursuits, but surely they're more suited to a vocational route.

Also before someone flames me, Sociology can be acedemic, but I get the impression the majority of people I see taking it picked it as an easier version of Psychology. Party animals from Highschool picked it and I don't know how, they must of just went down the list and went "Yeah that looks easy I can do that", because the sixth forms and colleges convinced them that everyone has to go to university.

If you can get into one of the top Film Studies Universities and think its a surefire way into the career you want, go for it. But don't be fooled into thinking having a degree ANY degree is equally regarded as the next degree holder.

I'm afraid that degree > university.

So only academic subjects should be offered? You don't want universities to offer medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and a whole host of other vocational degrees that will arguably contribute to society more than many degrees that are considered to be academic?

PS: I can't help but consider it ironic that you're advocating purely academic courses (with your own definition of academic) when you can't even spell the damn word.

Surely medicine and dentistry are academic subjects? I'm pretty sure not many people would class it as vocational, I mean I know there are vital skills doctors must have but surely all the academic knowledge outweighs that.

Also, maybe the person who spelt academic wrong my have dyslexia? You shouldn't judge someone by poor spelling or grammar.

Hey

I am considering going to SHU starting in 2012, to study film studies. However I am not sure whether to go because £9000 a year is a lot of money, and obviously its a pretty rubbish uni and I will probably end up in a minimum wage job at the end of it anyway (as the course is fairly poor). So not sure if its worth it as its such a bad course. Help?

Hey

I am considering going to SHU starting in 2012, to study film studies. However I am not sure whether to go because £9000 a year is a lot of money, and obviously its a pretty rubbish uni and I will probably end up in a minimum wage job at the end of it anyway (as the course is fairly poor). So not sure if its worth it as its such a bad course. Help?

No mate, you will have a minimum wage job because you are going to do film studies.