Four in 10 students say university not good value

You'd be mad to think I'm reading that article of a post.

Ever thought of a career with a newspaper?

Are you a grad? I'm curious because the reality is a lot different than 'in theory'. Graduating and getting a 21K job isn't the norm for a lot of people. I haven't earned more than 14K and I'm 3 years post graduation. I don't know a single person that I went to uni with (or from my school who went to uni) who is on that salary. They're working in retail/on the dole/temping etc.

Four in 10 of the first students to pay higher fees do not believe their courses have been good value for money

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33204691

Your views?!

To be fair. Hear me out... 4 in 10 people are f*cking idiots but that doesn't tell us anything. The people that think it's not value for money are the ones doing Land Economy at Kingston University... like you don't hear a Computer Scientist from Cambridge get a 1st, go work for Google then say "nah my degree was a rip off" do you? Basically 4/10 University students are too stupid for University and shouldn't of gone...

computer science has notoriously low levels of employment so poor example m8 plus these are students already within the degree programmes and have not graduated.

Yup.

I agree with the 40%. I had 9 contact hours a week during my degree. My fees were about 3K a year - before 2012 tuition fee hike. I felt robbed paying 3K a year to basically teach myself most of the time and then go to lectures which weren't particularly useful. I think the most useful thing was the seminars and I only had two per week (2 hours!). God knows how current students paying 9K a year with few contact hours feel - I'm not sure I'd bother unless it pretty much guaranteed a job (which most of them don't - mine included).

With hindsight and the advantage of being older and wiser, I can see now that I was naive going into a humanities/arts degree and paying that kind of money and having the expectations I did. But with all that said - I'm glad a have a degree. From a personal achievement perspective I'm glad I did it, but also I couldn't be making the career decision I'm making now without a degree so it is useful to me now.

I definitely feel like I paid for a piece of paper though - a mostly useless one too. I had a great sense of that throughout my degree.

Someone doing Law or Investment Banking definitely has a high value for money course, because they will most likely be earning on or over £100k after a few years.

Also, Uni prestige is almost completely irrelevent between degrees. Someone studying an unspecialised degree at a Russell group University most likely won't be earning anything near someone who studies a specialised degree (such as Law) at a non - Russell group University

It's a reach to suggest that someone doing Law will ''most likely" earn £100k after a couple of decades.

The idea that Russell Group humanities grads aren't earning "anywhere near‘ these people is preposterous.

I was talking about corporate Law

So are you saying that unspecialised degrees earn the same or more than specialised degrees such as medicine, Law veterinary medicine?

To be fair. Hear me out... 4 in 10 people are f*cking idiots but that doesn't tell us anything. The people that think it's not value for money are the ones doing Land Economy at Kingston University... like you don't hear a Computer Scientist from Cambridge get a 1st, go work for Google then say "nah my degree was a rip off" do you? Basically 4/10 University students are too stupid for University and shouldn't of gone...