Most overrated degree in your imo?

You wrongly seem to see a degree as a means by which to guarantee work and that a degree should only be measured by such metric. I think that is Portella's contention with the thread's attitude.

The idea that everyone who does PPE is power mad and think they will be an MP by the age of 25 is pretty daft. Most people who take the course end up working in things like banking, finance, the City in various ways, also mainstream business jobs and lots of other things besides.

What other metrics would you use to provide an answer?

PPE also turns out many lovely, charmingly witty, intelligent and thoughtful people such as yourself, even if you did accidentally end up being a liberal

Law ~


Think about it.. You get to dress up like an idiot and say stupid things.
Does one need a degree to do that~ ?

I'll think you'll find most people do a law degree because they want to be lawyers but find out near the end that not everyone can become a lawyer with just a law degree.

The cliche 'opens so many other doors' is true of 99% of degrees.

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Dude, you are like the poster boy for the "bitter med school reject" trope. The trouble is that you are also in your 30s, so you really are old enough to know better.

Medicine is not about rote learning at all, I don't know where you got that idea into your head but it's rubbish. Since the job is fundamentally a practical one which is all about dealing with individuals (who do not fit into black and white paradigms or neat little boxes, despite what you may think), it therefore logically follows that rote learning will be of little value.

Med school examiners can spot a student who's trying to pass their exams on the back of copious book learning and zero patient contact from a mile off. Such students do not do well. This is not a job for people who do not have lateral thinking skills or are merely looking to be algorithm monkeys.

And just as an aside, you place way too much value on UKCAT scores. **** me, the rest of the world merely views the UKCAT as a hoop to jump through, not as a way of determining whether an HCA (or whoever) would have made a better doctor than a current med student.

In fact the sort of arrogant, stuck up, two faced individuals and their abundance in medicine is one of the main reasons I'm happy with this decision.

Definitely law.

A degree that is competitive to get into at top universities, but offered by almost all universities due to the simplicity and commercially viable nature of doing so.

Competitive for places yet half of all practicing lawyers don't have one.

A degree that can be "created" using a non-competitive postgrad conversion course

Dude, if I bash finance it's because I'm not an MD at Goldman Sachs, tech then it's because I never got to work at Google,... The entire world is not jealous of you med students or doctors. I'm glad I pulled my remaining med school interviews without wasting any more time, you are entirely welcome to the job, the colleagues and work environment in the UK. 😉

In fact the sort of arrogant, stuck up, two faced individuals and their abundance in medicine is one of the main reasons I'm happy with this decision.

Okay sure whatever. But medicine still isn't all about rote memorisation kthxbai.

In terms of the degree itself, which is what we're asking about here (not the career), especially in the more traditional courses, would you say rote memorisation dominates the learning style in medicine, relative to other courses?

In terms of the degree itself, which is what we're asking about here (not the career), especially in the more traditional courses, would you say rote memorisation dominates the learning style in medicine, relative to other courses?

Awkward moment when you want to do PPE/Politics and Econ...

Tbf though it's because I have a serious interest in politics and econ above any other subject, and though I'm not aiming to be an MP, I do want to work in politics.

I'd agree though that people who take these subjects thinking it's a blagger's degree to power are probably overestimating just how useful PPE is or politics for that matter, it's one of the few courses that as the quality and prestige of your uni decreases, it becomes a lot more soft and probably a lot more useless, which is why I sorta have to get into a top uni...

With that in mind I'd still say finance. In my experience, people who do finance or accounting of some sort think it's a one way ticket to become a successful entrepreneur, banker, accountant or whatever. In my school it's the single most popular choice for people without any actual serious interest in a subject who don't really know what they want to do. Realistically maths is a lot more useful for banking and accountancy, and entrepreneurship or management of some sort does not in themselves require a degree. Finance has its uses but from personal experience, it's highly overrated.

Okay sure whatever. But medicine still isn't all about rote memorisation kthxbai.