Warwick vs UCL different degree

Hesitant between both Bsc:

- Chemistry with biomedicine warwick
- Crime and security science UCL

Which one give you more opportunities & the ability to potentially change pathways after graduating?

(like going to something opposite, instead of chemistry -> CS or any Engineering || instead of Crime and security science -> medicine or any engineering)

Also, which one do you think gives more access to excellent unis like Oxbridge, LSE & icl.

Reply 1

McGinger

Go to Open Days, listen to the subject/course presentations, look around and ask questions.
This is about the degree, and whether you will enjoy studying that subject for 3 years - not mythical future career prospects that no-one can quantify.

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Reply 2

Ay03ys

Original post by McGinger

Go to Open Days, listen to the subject/course presentations, look around and ask questions.
This is about the degree, and whether you will enjoy studying that subject for 3 years - not mythical future career prospects that no-one can quantify.
Excellent careers site, with hundreds of job/career profiles - Job profiles | Prospects.ac.uk

I have til tomorrow to choose … 💔

Reply 3

McGinger

Original post by Ay03ys

I have til tomorrow to choose … 💔

Okay!

You need to read as much as you can about each course and do some serious thinking about which path you want to take. No-one can decide this for you.

How badly do you want to do science? What career area would the UCL course lead to, does it actually interest you? Try not to be blinded by the idea of UCL, and remember how much more it costs to live in London.

Reply 4

artful_lounger

Universities Forum Helper

Note that both UCL and Warwick are target universities so for investment banking and management consulting they're essentially equivalent. For any other grad role where you study doesn't really matter anyway.

So you should be choosing as above on the basis of the course you want to do. Both are excellent universities and both will get you to the same range of (non-specialist) grad schemes. The difference lies in the subject matter and how interested you are in that.

You're not going to be able to go into an engineering role after either course realistically. I suspect you probably aren't likely to meet the requirements for most computing sector areas with either course for that matter as well (as typically you'd need a "numerate" degree which is e.g. physics, maths, CS, engineering - I think chemistry may be a bridge too far). If those are your goals you should be applying to, well, engineering.

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Reply 5

ssefeffcsece

Original post by Ay03ys

Hesitant between both Bsc:
- Chemistry with biomedicine warwick
- Crime and security science UCL
Which one give you more opportunities & the ability to potentially change pathways after graduating?
(like going to something opposite, instead of chemistry -> CS or any Engineering || instead of Crime and security science -> medicine or any engineering)
Also, which one do you think gives more access to excellent unis like Oxbridge, LSE & icl.

hi im starting crime and security science this September as I would like to become a intelligence analyst, this course is apparently data science heavy with a lot of coding so maybe that would suit you