is a science degree more useful than humanities?

No, unless it's in a graduate scheme where that is necessary and you don't have evidence of that in your current degree (e.g. you want to apply to some mathematical modelling based role in an engineering firm...which you wouldn't be aiming for with a humanities degree anyway). If the grad scheme in question doesn't rely on that (e.g. law training contracts, among many others) then it won't matter. The job description for the grad scheme should make it clear what they are looking for in candidates and whether specific numerical skills are needed. In general only basic numeracy and proficiency with standard office packages is probably presupposed. Plus many humanities degrees now increasingly include quantitative options or required modules to develop a wider range of soft skills anyway (see the many "quantifying history" type modules at many universities for example).

Anecdotally even in many ostensibly quantitative fields you don't need much if any quantitative background to the level of a STEM degree; I know someone who did history and politics in undergrad and then went on to become an accountant at a big 4 firm. Investment banks regularly take on people from a wide range of degree backgrounds.

Unfortunately, in this world doing stem subjects will lead you to more opportunities and employment. Thus, the phrase Stem Superiority

thank you.
i am considering politics or biology, but politics is more interesting for me. i just dont know what i wanna do as a career so i want to keep my options open

This is false, and the simplest evidence for that is the government commissioned two inquiries about poor employability prospects in a range of STEM fields for UK graduates, including CS, earth and environmental sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences. The phrase "STEM superiority" refers to people who hold that false notion and go around telling everyone else their degrees are worthless to try and inflate their own sense of worth which they've entirely invested in their degree subject choice instead of any meaningful personal development.



In general your employment prospects outside of specialist areas (e.g. working in a lab based role) is going to be more or less the same from any degree, and primarily dependent on you, rather than your degree subject. Whether you do politics or biology doesn't matter so much as what relevant work experience and transferable skills you gain during the degree through internships, placements, vacation schemes, etc, and becoming involved substantively with various extracurricular activities in leadership roles that demonstrate both leadership and other "soft" skills (e.g. communicating, delivering bad news, using different software packages, planning events, invoicing and working with finances, etc).

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& would you say that any academic degree would be more useful/employable than a creative degree such as fine art or film generally?

are graduate schemes more likely to employ graduates with a scientific degree over a humanities degree due to numerical skills?