Which graduates are most likely to make 50k+ in their careers?

The polys don't do them.

If you work in IB, it's more like three to five years.

Don't understand why everyone always assumes a trade-off though. You can work in the City for a period of time, make your money, then leave. You will have options to go into something with more or equivalent or slightly less pay with way better hours that you would not have previously had access to, then you bring up a family in a financially secure environment. That way, rather than struggling when having kids you can actually enjoy the time you spend with them and do more exotic things together.

Money doesn't buy happiness but it solves 99% of the problems that make you unhappy.

For most people, what is above is a good deal. Make a sacrifice during the years where you would probably be messing around anyway then leave and bring up a family and have a financially secure future.

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Plymouth peninsula, keele, hull, brighton.... All A*AA-AAA

What about medicine/dentistry graduates from ex polys whos a level grades far surpass most RGU students?

Ill most likely get shot down here, but I think its a lot easier for men? A guy can work in the city not worry about settling down for years a woman has a biological clock which I suppose will always be at the back of your mind.

Note the A*AA/AAA, such things have a standardised minimum entry requirement due to the professions they will enter into. I wouldn't be surprised if private healthcare providers are selective about institutions, and they should pay more than the NHS.

A-Levels have nothing on a rigorous undergraduate degree anyway, so it's not really relevant.

Well it is relevant, the entry requirements to these courses are A*AA-AAA, which indicates how difficult the degree is to an extent.
Do you really think that the governing bodies would allow a medical/dental degree to be 'easy' or easier than other medical/dental degrees? I think not.

That wasn't what I was trying to say, but anyway the entry requirements to a course is more indicative of how competitive it is, not the difficulty. Furthermore, the point of the GMC governance isn't to make sure no medical degree is harder than another, it's just to ensure all universities offering medicine meet a certain standard - I've seen a report on one of the exams medical students have to take after graduation which found clear differences based on which university they received did their medical degree.

Point is there is no bias between universities for medicine/dentistry. When you apply for a foundation post, your university isn't on the application as long as you graduated from the UK.
My original point is that there are medical/dental students at ex polys whos academics FAR surpass the vast majority of RGU students.

I know, but just because you don't have to put down where you studied when you apply for a foundation post doesn't mean there aren't differences in medical education.

My reply to your point was actually me trying to say "Why does it matter what you got at A-Level if you've done a rigorous undergraduate degree?" - because how you've done in a highly quantitative degree (for example) at a top university is far more interesting information than how they did at A-Level.

Well it is relevant, the entry requirements to these courses are A*AA-AAA, which indicates how difficult the degree is to an extent.
Do you really think that the governing bodies would allow a medical/dental degree to be 'easy' or easier than other medical/dental degrees? I think not.

Lol, it'd be pretty impossible to guarantee that all courses were of identical difficulty.

Plymouth peninsula, keele, hull, brighton.... All A*AA-AAA

Just a note, but Hull and Keele were never polytechnics, and are in fact older than a few Russell Group universities.

Only on TSR could this thread descend into such a bore fest.

Can't wait for you all to realise nobody gives a monkey about whether you got 10 A* A-levels or just a regular AAB once you're into uni.


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Employers do.

As a graduate hiring manager now earning over 50k, I can tell you that ultimately depends more on the uni than the degree subject. A first from an old poly in any subject is never going to be worth as much as even a 2:2 from a Red brick/RG uni. Don't even try to kid yourselves.