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Your Top 10 degrees?

when listing your top 10, please consider the competativeness of actually getting a job, and/or even qualifying for the degree.
Also consider the market or area of the degree in 7 years.
thanx for the replys yall! :biggrin:

Reply 1

ElWilson

14

In what area of careers?

Reply 2

john williams

15

Economics and Management from Oxford or Economics from LSE and finally Industrial Economics from Nottingham!!

Reply 3

Lecter

12

Medicine, dentistry, vet science, law, economics, physics, chemistry, natural sciences, primary teaching, physiotherapy........?

Reply 4

ElWilson

14

Maths, Law, Economics, Medicine, Management, Physics, History, PPE, Politics, Modern Languages,

Reply 5

*Mike*

11

1 - Computer Science
2 - Computer Science
3 - Computer Science
4 - Computer Science
5 - Computer Science
6 - Computer Science
7 - Computer Science
8 - Computer Science
9 - Computer Science
10 - Computer Science

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Reply 6

aronl

Geography is very good for employment. It is flexible and you pick up a lot of different, useful skills.

Physics

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heminder

Physics

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hmmmm?

Reply 9

Drogue

19

ghetto_faboulus

when listing your top 10, please consider the competativeness of actually getting a job, and/or even qualifying for the degree.
Also consider the market or area of the degree in 7 years.
thanx for the replys yall! :biggrin:

I'd say, for general grad employment:

E&M - Oxford
Maths - Cambridge
PPE - Oxford
Economics - Cambridge/LSE
Maths (inc. M&P) - Oxford
Physics/Engineering (inc. P&P) - Oxbridge/Imperial
Economics & ... - LSE
Economics - UCL
Maths/Economics/MORSE - Warwick
Law - Oxbridge

Employers want numerical and analytical degrees, and so always love maths/economics/physics/engineering type degrees. As expected with universities, overall it would be Oxbridge, very closely followed by Imperial or LSE (or equal in applied science and economics respectively), then by UCL in economics and Warwick in maths and economics. Law added as it seems to be highly valued, and a *huge* workload, but not quite as much as the more numerical degrees above.

E&M was named by the Times as the most employable degree in the country, and is also the most oversubscribed major Oxbridge course (only less than a couple of very small degrees). Maths at Cambridge is known to be just incredible, though obviously Oxbridge's and Warwick's being really good too.

Obviously this would be different for different fields, and is very subjective (is econ and UCL better than maths and econ at LSE, for example? Or econ at Cam better than PPE at Ox? Etc.) but when it comes to internships/grad careers, people from the degrees above seem to do well. They are some of the hardest to get into courses though (Econ at LSE/Cam, E&M, Maths at Cam and Law especially). I think over the next few years it will continue to be the case, as econ is still rising, being more oversibscribed each year, E&M's a new course just proving itself and Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE's hold over those subjects doesn't seem to be shifting that fast.

Again, just to stress this is my opinion only, but based on quite a few talks with graduate recruiters, and quite a lot of analysis of who gets the most oversubscribed internships and grad positions, whether in IBs, politics (the FCO is about *the* hardest position to get, and it's almost always largely PPEists) or consultancy.

Reply 10

keano

1

suprised no one mentioned engineering...

you learn your normal brach subjects (mechanical, electrical, civil aerospace whatever), which include a load of maths and physics anyway.
you get practical experience (labs, and projects, yep actually making real stuff and get experience in using tools)
you learn a few programming languages, and some CAD software
you learn maths
you learn management, business (in final year, depends on uni)

so basically after graduation you're well equipped to go in to a lot of jobs (except medicine vetting and err law...)

Reply 11

El Scotto

15

Its all personal choice really isnt it.

I'd rather do something that leads me to a job I enjoy at the end of it, which is the plan... Money, isnt the main priority. I've done enough work for lots of money that I hate.

Reply 12

Happy1

14

i think that graduates of Law, Medicene, Vet Medicene, Engineering, Maths, Economics and maybe PPE are the most likely to get jobs if they go to a decent uni. The degrees require a lot of work and are repected as adademic degrees, whereas the likes of American Studies or Golf Course Management or whatever are not.

Reply 13

MuteMarble

My Personal Top Degrees (In order)

Engineering
Maths
Physics
Medicine
Accountancy
Law
Economics

I can't really think of any others.

Engineering goes top because it's my first choice as a degree.

I think when choosing a degree, one has to think of the practicalities of it, as well as the theory, or how much you like it. :smile:

Reply 14

Hulk56

9

Medicine, mathematics, accountancy, dentistry, law, chemistry, physics, areospace engineering, history

Reply 15

Knogle

16

Heh, these lists are largely bias depending on what course an individual's reading. :wink:

Reply 16

Esquire

1

If I was an employer I wouldn't employ someone on what degree they had, or even where from. I might actually like to meet some of them first and see what they had to say for themselves...

Reply 17

Ashman

To the person above: I think its pretty obvious that noone here thinks that your degree will automatically get you a job. Of course employers will meet them first (its called an interview) What this thread is about is what degrees will generally help you get past the application form

Basically the top ten is full of traditional degrees. I dont get how anyone would put accounting above law (as someone wrote somewhere in this thread). Accounting is a useless degree subject, hence why hardly any top unis offer it. Same with business. I know of so many people with those degrees who are working in crap jobs, whereas people who did traditional degrees are getting city job offers left, right and center.

Reply 18

Drogue

19

Ashman

Accounting is a useless degree subject, hence why hardly any top unis offer it. Same with business.

Which top unis don't offer business? Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and Warwick all do. Imperial obviously don't, but I can't think of many top 10 universities that don't.

Reply 19

Ashman

Oxford dont according to their website.
http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/courses/
LSE offer it as business mathematics
Cambridge dont http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/
UCL doesnt (bar with italian)
Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/degreea2z/

Getting bored of checking uni guides now

I think we might be getting our wires crossed as I meant for undergraduates, not post grads.

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