Most Overrated/Underrated Degree Subjects?

You should be sorry and you say you want to teach kids! Unbelievable


Very rarely I'd imagine. Only people who directly have to interact with foreign suppliers/customers will need any language skills. And often such exchanges are done in English for practicality purposes or as a courtesy - the foreign person speaks better English than the Brit can speak the foreign language.

Underrated - Nursing
Overrated - Computer Science

which do you reckon deserve more/less "prestige"?

Languages no doubt help, but the primary focus of most jobs is not language based. It is rare in most industries that you ever need to revise and reuse the language skills you formerly learnt. I think if we go ask the older community how often they have to use a second language in their work, most will say that they have never needed a second language.

I wouldn't study a language as a degree but am interested in learning a few in my lifetime.

Underrated - Nursing
Overrated - Computer Science

Overrated: Medicine

Come at me Medics.

Underrated: Arts subjects in general

Underrated - Nursing
Overrated - Computer Science

Neither is the primary focus of most jobs literary criticism, historical analysis, mathematical theorems or the goings on of any degree. The idea is that they give you transferable skills, not some specialist knowledge. Although it must be said that in the case of language degrees, they come closer to this than most in that more jobs need people who speak other languages than do the subject matter of any other degree I can think of.

I think UCL made a step in the right direction by requiring applicants to have at least a GCSE in a foreign language.

I know people are trying to push languages but it's pretty embarrassing when 64% of German people and 86% of Swedish people speak fluent English.

But degrees aren't about what they teach, they are about the skills you pick up along the way.

I don't see how physics gives people a wider range of transferable skills than other degrees or makes them any more employable - could your position be anything to do with the fact that physics is your degree? - you'll have to expand with some strong reasoning or evidence for this to be convincing.

I study Film and Media which is soooo underrated! I'm learning so much about sociology, psychology, theology! It's so much fAhaaaaaa I couldn't say it with a straight face,

In all seriousness, it touches on subjects you wouldn't expect, but overall it's fun for those who love film or media. It's not really taught me a lot outside of film and media.