Software engineering or user experience design

Hi I’m a first year who is currently studying chemistry at mmu but wants to swap over to another course. I’m stuck choosing between software engineering and user experience design. The reason is because if I go through with software engineering I’ll have to take a foundation year and then move on to studying it which means I’ll spend 5 years at uni in total whereas with the user experience design I can be transferred straight on to the first year. I need advice one which degree is better, which degree has better opportunities outside of the UK career wise and which one will I be landing a job easily after graduation with, I just don’t want to make the wrong decision again. Thanks.

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by Itchy0578

I need advice one which degree is better, which degree has better opportunities outside of the UK career wise and which one will I be landing a job easily after graduation with, I just don’t want to make the wrong decision again.
This is a very inappropriate approach. If you are studying only to get a job and for job opportunities, you're going at it wrong. You should pick a degree that you want to study as opposed for hoping for a job. Unless the degree is a legal requirement for a specific profession and is recognised in the country concerned, that's not what the degree is for. A degree is there to demonstrate you have competence in a specific field at university level; it does not mean you are competent in a job, suitable for a job, or can do a job. Unless the degree is legally required for the specific job (e.g. medicine, teaching, architecture), having a degree doesn't help you in your job hunt - nobody hires solely based on what letters you have after your name.

This is particularly appropriate with software engineering and UX. Neither requires you to have any qualifications in order to go into their respective fields. People in tech hire based on skills and competence, not qualifications. If anything, getting a professional certification in UX will probably do more than a degree in UX. Software engineering doesn't have professional certifications, but often an apprenticeship would be more valuable than a degree in terms of job prospects.

If you are studying your degree for the wrong reasons, you will likely keep getting qualifications every time you change careers. It's often needlessly time consuming and expensive.

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