what exactly is a 'mickey mouse' degree?

You could; but it's a bit different learning a hobby to learning something to degree level lol!

Who'd be stupid enough to get a degree just for the sake of it? £3,070 a year isn't cheap, you know?

How do you know you'll have a job after uni? How does ANYONE know they'll get a job after uni?

Exactly, no degree subject means you'll automatically get a good job with lots of prospects and have a good life. Also there are other factors other than the subject, like where you study that'll affect your employability.

How do you know you'll have a job after uni? How does ANYONE know they'll get a job after uni?

How do you know you'll have a job after uni? How does ANYONE know they'll get a job after uni?

Well nothing in ANY circumstance is 'certain', but you seem to be clutching at straws here. For a degree such as medicine, law, maths etc, your prospects of employment are very good, but for degrees such as 'surf studies', or 'golf course management' the employment and earning potential are undeniably lower, at least for the majority. When did it become that there has to be a degree for everything? It just seems pointless.

It would depend entirely on what I wanted to do after uni.

But I'd hope that you'd be discounting Law because you wanted to go into Films or something like that rather than making a beeline for Film Studies because you think it would benefit you. In most cases it wouldn't.

Would depend if you wanted to run a golf-course really.
When did it become that earning loads was the only important thing in education?

Well nothing in ANY circumstance is 'certain', but you seem to be clutching at straws here. For a degree such as medicine, law, maths etc, your prospects of employment are very good, but for degrees such as 'surf studies', or 'golf course management' the employment and earning potential are undeniably lower, at least for the majority. When did it become that there has to be a degree for everything? It just seems pointless.

And surely you'd also want to earn enough to cover the pointless debt you'd just got yourself in. If, as you say, education is not all about 'earning', then why go to uni at all? There are other ways of learning without the debt.

Even with medicine there is unemployability. I read an article the other day about people that had studied medicine yet still can't get a graduate job within that area. Also when did earning potential determine whether a degree is worth studying, people that study golf course management may pursue a career which they really enjoy but might not pay loads. I agree that there does seem to be a degree subject for everything these days but where there is demand for a subject the university will supply it and that doesn't mean that the subject should be seen as less challenging than traditional subjects.

Other than the fact that it obviously is? You just can't compare medicine with surf studies, for example.

Land Economy at Cambridge..

I go to uni because it gives me the education I need to get the job I want. Nope, I'm not bothered about the earnings I get at the end. In fact, I'll need to work for little/no pay for a long time once I graduate, but I'll be enjoying it, which is far more important.

I really wasn't expecting that, lol.