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Best/Worst Degrees?!?

After some threads coming onto this issue, i thought we should have some sort of debate on the best and worst degrees...

My preference is that Economics is the best degree.

It involves maths and writing ability - 2 important skills in any job or work environment, as well as providing specialist knowledge in Finance and Economics itself..

As for the worst. Has to be Media...

Sorry.. Even the Beeb don't like it! :wink:

Reply 1

Dionysus

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Most Pointless:
archaeology and physical education (Dual Honours!)
viking studies
computer science and welsh (Dual Honours!)
wine studies
embroidery
food studies/remote sensing and GIS
science and football (Dual Honours!)
acupuncture
welsh and australian studies (Dual Honours!)
blacksmithing
stud management
disaster risk management
german and healing arts (Dual Honours!)
jazz studies
footwear design
criminology and textile furnishing design

Oh, and one of my former teachers did a module in Pornography.

Best: Medicine or Economics, or possibly Law.

Reply 2

Kater Murr

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Most Pointless:
archaeology and physical education (Dual Honours!)
viking studies
computer science and welsh (Dual Honours!)
wine studies
embroidery
food studies/remote sensing and GIS
science and football (Dual Honours!)
acupuncture
welsh and australian studies (Dual Honours!)
blacksmithing
stud management
disaster risk management
german and healing arts (Dual Honours!)
jazz studies
footwear design
criminology and textile furnishing design

Oh, and one of my former teachers did a module in Pornography.

Best: Medicine or Economics, or possibly Law.

I wouldn't say acupuncture is pointless, if you want to be an acupuncturist. But, I wouldn't pay £9,000 for the course.

Reply 3

cpj1987

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I've heard of only one course that I'd say was completely pointless; David Beckham studies.

Reply 4

shady lane

16

There's no such thing as David Beckham Studies. One university offered a module in David Beckham and the press exaggerated it like mad.

Reply 5

cpj1987

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shady lane

There's no such thing as David Beckham Studies. One university offered a module in David Beckham and the press exaggerated it like mad.

Oh really? Right I take that back then. We had a speech at school 2 years ago and they discussed this course with us, so I assumed it was true... oops.

Reply 6

shady lane

16

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/694451.stm

Here it is.

Fair enough! :smile:

Dionysus

viking studies

A part sub area of History plus languages. No different to studying a course on Victorian Studies (which you can at MA - Birkbeck offer it as one example).

Doesn't exactly look like the easiest course either:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/ug-degrees-2005/arts-and-humanities/scandinavian-studies/degree/viking-studies/index.shtml

Reply 9

gaijin

1

Dionysus

Most Pointless:
archaeology and physical education (Dual Honours!)
viking studies
computer science and welsh (Dual Honours!)
wine studies
embroidery
food studies/remote sensing and GIS
science and football (Dual Honours!)
acupuncture
welsh and australian studies (Dual Honours!)
blacksmithing
stud management
disaster risk management
german and healing arts (Dual Honours!)
jazz studies
footwear design
criminology and textile furnishing design

Oh, and one of my former teachers did a module in Pornography.

You know I'd always love to study that. Not because I would get to divulge in more masturbation, but merely so I could go on Univeristy Challenge and say "Hi, I'm gaijin from youknowwhere....and I'm reading pornography."

I actually knew someone who did risk management. Yeah. Sorry, but that's all I know. Computer Science isn't too bad. And at least you study it with a foreign language (albeit a very small one.)

Reply 10

Cromulent

12

Wine studies is definitely NOT pointless. Having worked in a Winery for three years there is an awful lot of chemistry to learn in order to make good wine. In fact making wine involves an awful lot of knowledge which is something that most people fail to realise (I'm talking commercial wine, not making a barrel in the cellar at home).

Reply 11

kateyrib

black smithing and stud management are useful if you wanna work with horses and stuff

Reply 12

Sweet-Euphoria

kateyrib

black smithing and stud management are useful if you wanna work with horses and stuff

Ditto.

I don't think you can call those useless.

Reply 13

apotoftea

19

Sweet-Euphoria

Ditto.

I don't think you can call those useless.

actually - you'll find in the horse employment world - hard graft and experience is rated far higher than a 3 year degree course. You only have to speak to employers or read letters in such magazines like the BHS members' mag or Horse and Hound to see this view supported around the country.

Plus having spoken to farriers, nothing beats a 3 to 4 year apprencticeship working hands on rather than a degree.

Reply 14

erk

14

Worst:

economics
engineering (all disciplines)
medicine
sciences
law

best:

media studies
surf studies

Reply 15

Marco123

Best:

Maths/Physics/Engineering

Worst:

Practically anyone of those degrees that ends in "studies".

Reply 16

jodie_lee

Hey....newbie invading your thread here...are all the "studies" degrees really that bad? got a nottingham prospectus through the other day and the american studies kind of appealed with the year out etc, and maybe latin american to add a language in...
has been between law or economics&something before..

Who gives a crap?

ChemistBoy

Who gives a crap?

Those interested in getting a good job after it?

Reply 19

ChemistBoy

16

Agamemnon

Those interested in getting a good job after it?

You can get a 'good' job with all degrees. You can also get a 'bad' job with all degrees too. The best thing to do is do something you enjoy and have some talent in, whether that be quantum physics or chardonnay production. I mean it's not as if an individual is really going to be torn between Law and Surf Studies, is it?

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