2 btec ext certs and 1 A level going to uni

I’ve recently done 2 Btec extended certificates in IT and Business with an A level in politics. My predicted grades are A* politics D IT and D business (though I’m likely to get D* in business). I already have an offer from my uni of choice (Lancaster) in politics. Recently, I’ve been debating to myself whether I’m not I should switch at the last minute to business management from politics. If I did so, would a struggle in business with an extended certificate? I’ve been relatively stressed out with being unsure politics is for me. Any help would be appreciated!

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MindMax2000

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Original post by Studentlife543

I’ve recently done 2 Btec extended certificates in IT and Business with an A level in politics. My predicted grades are A* politics D IT and D business (though I’m likely to get D* in business). I already have an offer from my uni of choice (Lancaster) in politics. Recently, I’ve been debating to myself whether I’m not I should switch at the last minute to business management from politics. If I did so, would a struggle in business with an extended certificate? I’ve been relatively stressed out with being unsure politics is for me. Any help would be appreciated!

I can't tell you whether you should do a degree in politics or a degree in business. However, I can more or less give you an idea of what it's like to study business at Lancaster.

In terms of whether you will struggle, every business degree would start off assuming you know next to nothing (which is why Business is not a required subject for any business degree that I know of across the world). So, in short you're not exactly disadvantaged by having a certificate.
If you intend to do business at another university, the premise is still the same: you are assumed to know nothing about business, but the learning curve is going to be steep.

LUMS does offer challenging degree courses, especially when you're doing 8 modules a year (from the last time I've checked), so you are expected to do a lot of studying and it's going to be intensive (definitely getting your money's worth).

I think it's only fair that I point this out: you don't need a degree to go into politics (you can look through the profiles of politicians to check) or business. Whilst you do get business knowledge from a business degree, it's only really useful if you intend to go into business for yourself or you intend to go into consulting. For jobs in business, you don't need a degree at all really.
Even if you do go into business for yourself, you're not really going to be using much knowledge from your degree and what you know from your BTEC should be more than enough for a small business.
Having said the above, if you intend to go into business research or political research in academia, you would need the degrees.

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Emmanuel AA

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Original post by Studentlife543

I’ve recently done 2 Btec extended certificates in IT and Business with an A level in politics. My predicted grades are A* politics D IT and D business (though I’m likely to get D* in business). I already have an offer from my uni of choice (Lancaster) in politics. Recently, I’ve been debating to myself whether I’m not I should switch at the last minute to business management from politics. If I did so, would a struggle in business with an extended certificate? I’ve been relatively stressed out with being unsure politics is for me. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi,

My name is Emmanuel and I've just graduated from Lancaster University as a student of History & Politics; I am also going to do a Master's degree in Politics next year, so if you have any specific questions or concerns about doing a Politics degree, then please don't hesitate to respond and ask me. Do note that all first year students have up until the end of the 3rd week of the first term to change their degree programme, but if you can get more clarity now about what it is you might want to do to be able to take the appropriate action, then that is obviously a sensible course of action to take.

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