Most OVERRATED and UNDERRATED degrees

No jobs in law, journalism or publishing; academia very poorly paid and not that easy to get jobs in. Civil service increasingly hard to get into and again poorly paid

If you're good enough, there are jobs in law, my sister has just been offered a good one after only a month of searching. Academia usually pays around £30,000 a year, not at all poorly paid in my opinion, I could happily live on that. Civil service is competitive granted, but provided you're intelligent, attend a top uni and are motivated, there will be places available for you, and the rising payscale saw many jobs end up with around £30,000 last I checked, a good wage for most people.

If you just go to university, get absolutely no experience or build contacts, then you're right, with a humanities you're disadvantaged. If you go to a top uni, get great experience and build contacts, you will do fine.

All I want is enough to live on comfortably, I'd rather earn £30,000 and love my job, than £70,000 and hate it. I've grown up around people with great wealth, and have seen that money does not ultinately create happiness.

Unless you want to go into law, publishing, journalism, civil sector, academia as a lecturer etc.

Is economic good ? I am planning of studying economics and maths

Try living in London on £30k/year.

I personally think most degrees are overrated. This nonsense that 50% of us have to get a degree has just impoverished many of us. You can now get a degree in nannying from Norlands - WHAT! - . And it is blooming expensive.

Any reasonable (i.e. not knitting studies) degree is good, what's more important is you: the skills, qualities, experience that you have.

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The most underrated degree is theology as the difficulty that has to do with languages(of course proficiency in English in the UK is the basic, but knowing Hebrew, Latin and Greeks and other European languages are a big plus), philosophy, literacy, social sciences including religious studies, archaeology, sociology, history etc.
Understanding moral questions to do with modern society, to the complexity to do with many things such as music, arts and liturgies etc-- to the studies about religions such as Islam in the globalizing world.. or talking about Catholicism, it has different understanding of the doctrine from society to society as for instance how the Easterners take positive theology on the immaculate conception while westerners take negative theology into their hearts.. tell me that it is not underrated, you may not be a fool but completely ignorant about the natures of other subjects other than your field!
Ps. I am not doing theology but many of my friends are theologians in Durham.

Old post I know but

You’d be amazed at the size and diversity of the knitting industry in the uk. There’s entire library archives devoted to knitting patterns and fabric development and new knitting techniques (manual and mechanical) are highly sought after.

foreign language degrees are underrated

Why tho? They are fairly useless as everyone speaks english anyways, and I'll be damned if I go to live anywhere but the UK or the US

media, publishing, business, teaching english in foreign countries pays well...
and i just think learning a language to degree level is impressive to me.

I actually met a lecturer of theology at Durham, he was a pretty cool dude.

Underrated: Economics. If you don't agree, you're an idiot. Economics is the master race and anything else is not worth studying.

I am predicted four A*s and am applying soon, I want to do STEM.

I believe Computer Science is the most underrated degree

I was considering applying for Medicine and I have work experience there but after doing a lot of research I think it looks overrated so not sure if I will apply, from my experience with family members in hospital/talking to doctors etc. the NHS can be a very cliquey bullying environment. As it is the most prestigious degree and most people want to do it or are jealous of medical students it is possibly the most overrated (IMHO)

This thread is subjective before the usual trolls come on but give your reasons why you think certain subjects are over/underrated