Is law a useless degree?

Apparently there are more people in colleges studying law then there are actual jobs. Is this true?

(1) Even if true, why does this render law a useless degree? There is competition for all jobs.
(2) This assumes all Law grads practice law - which is not the case.
(3) Studying Law brings many benefits outside of preparation for your future career.

To spend 30,000 on a degree to learn debating skills? Are you trolling?

To spend 30,000 on a degree to learn debating skills? Are you trolling?

no

ps rep me if u agree or and rep me if u disagree

To spend 30,000 on a degree to learn debating skills? Are you trolling?

Clearly you have no idea of what a law course entails if you think it's just debating. Are you the one trolling you delusional bat?



well i mean looks like i gotta rep

The honing of your mental faculties one achieves from an in-depth study of the law (and all this entails) is not to be dismissed.

Apparently there are more people in colleges studying law then there are actual jobs. Is this true?

Law has a high "gradient" of usefulness for careers. I mean that law from a top uni is very well respected, you have a chance of getting training contacts at prestigious high paying firms etc. From a lesser university, your degree is less useful as you are more likely to be out-competed for these jobs and end up with a lesser law job or in another field.

There is of course a gradient like this with all degrees except medicine but it's acute for law because of the bottleneck of training contracts. Computer science is another I think it applies to as well.

This statement is very true, but that does not mean that the degree itself is useless. Law is traditionally seen as a very lucrative field to enter, now couple this with the fact it's very cheap to run law degrees compared with chemistry degrees due to the low reliance on resources, there are a lot of bad law graduates. Law at a top university is by far one of the best degrees in terms of earning potential, but if it's from a low ranking university, you will seriously struggle to gain a high quality training contract and with the obsolescence of paralegals it will be hard to build up a relevant working history.



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The degree obviously is useless. You can't even justify a point with valid reasons you have to add in a few "racist, sexist, delusional" ********.

No you're useless

The degree is only as useless as you make it smh. You take opportunities to amp up your CV and try to get the best classification you can, and it makes for an impressive portfolio for employers as long as the university isn't utterly terrible