Is it better for your first degree to be more general?

Hi!
Would it not be an advantage to study a less specific degree at first?

I'm thinking about applying to philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) which is three areas in one degree, so naturally it'd cover a wide range of material. However, if I also applied to study just economics, I'd be only doing one thing, and wouldn't have as wide a career path. And, if I studied PPE, I could later do a Masters in economics, rather than just doing a Bachelors in economics first.

What do you think?

Companies do not want people that are "all rounded", they want people that have specific skills in order to make revenue from those skills.

For example:
A surgeon and a mechanic have more in common than you might actually think. Both of these jobs have a specific skill that a company NEEDS in order to make revenue for the company. A surgeon has a skill in cutting people up and fixing them up again, and a mechanic has a skill of fixing up cars.

Now, you need to get into a degree or a trade that gives you a skill that companies are willing to pay you for and that are in demand.

Here are the following degrees that are only worth going to University for:
1) Medicine
2) Nursing
3) Computer Science
4) Engineering
5) Accounting/Actuarial Science.

Companies do not want people that are "all rounded", they want people that have specific skills in order to make revenue from those skills.

For example:
A surgeon and a mechanic have more in common than you might actually think. Both of these jobs have a specific skill that a company NEEDS in order to make revenue for the company. A surgeon has a skill in cutting people up and fixing them up again, and a mechanic has a skill of fixing up cars.

Now, you need to get into a degree or a trade that gives you a skill that companies are willing to pay you for and that are in demand.

Here are the following degrees that are only worth going to University for:
1) Medicine
2) Nursing
3) Computer Science
4) Engineering
5) Accounting/Actuarial Science.

Who hurt you?

Ah yes, the truth does hurt.

Your list doesn't make sense. Surely Law should be on that list, and considering teaching is a graduate profession, that should be considered too (so a wide range there, unless you want non-graduate teachers...), the world needs historians etc.

Law is extremely over saturated, its only worth pursuing law if you are studying it in the top 5 Law Universities or if you surname is Rockefeller, otherwise forget it. Moreover, teachers get paid peanuts, they are over worked and frankly, they will never be able to pay back their loans while they are earning a measly 27k pre tax.

The world doesn't need historians, you have the internet to read up about history and almost everything else. For crying out loud I know almost everything about the Crusades from just listening to an audio book while I'm working out at the gym. Want to learn about philosophy? Go to a library and get a book about Socrates or Kant and just bloody well read that instead of blowing 27k on University without any job prospects at the end of it, and then just leaving all the mess to the hardworking tax payers. Have some respect.

Law is extremely over saturated, its only worth pursuing law if you are studying it in the top 5 Law Universities or if you surname is Rockefeller, otherwise forget it. Moreover, teachers get paid peanuts, they are over worked and frankly, they will never be able to pay back their loans while they are earning a measly 27k pre tax.

The world doesn't need historians, you have the internet to read up about history and almost everything else. For crying out loud I know almost everything about the Crusades from just listening to an audio book while I'm working out at the gym. Want to learn about philosophy? Go to a library and get a book about Socrates or Kant and just bloody well read that instead of blowing 27k on University without any job prospects at the end of it, and then just leaving all the mess to the hardworking tax payers. Have some respect.

And yet computer Science has the highest unemployment rate....

(Education was 3%, law was 4%....)

Last time I checked you didn't have to re-learn whole subjects if you were teaching or if you had re-write all the laws and re-learn them again. Whereas, I'm pretty sure in computer science there are new languages, new scripts/engines and as soon as you jump out of University, whatever you have learned will become "old" and the latest engine will result in your having to learn it from scratch, hence taking more time, and therefore employers wanting graduates being up to date constantly.

Hence, professional development and having a good portfolio of knowing languages, engines and scripting makes it infinitely more difficult than just pontificating the same subject content to a class of kids and also pontificating the same Acts and laws to a judge.

Take your pick. With the advancements in technology and software engineering being required, you're a fool to patronise computer science.