Most worthwhile university degree?

[Lilani]

As most have already said, degrees are lovely, however in the end it's experience and courage that will move you forward in life. If you need to make ends meet flipping burgers for a while, do it. But don't just settle in there. Keep putting in applications, get into a job shadowing gig or apprenticeship. Whatever you do, just don't quit.

 

[Annoying Turd]

Xlent.

While I acknowledge that I have an entire life ahead of me, and that I have plenty of time to decide what to specialize in, I still need to pick a school and a major.

So I have this engineering school that would give me a 3 year free ride complete with internships, as well as a guaranteed 3 year work contract (to pay off for the free ride) with full pay, as well as future education opportunities to pursue MBAs or Masters/PhDs. Yet I still can't decide which engineering discipline to pick: Electrical or Chemical? Maybe Petroleum Engineering? Whatever choice I pick, if I follow it, I would never get an opportunity to trade my degree for a different discipline after 3 years, kinda like the frost poem about the diverging road. How do I know which choices I would regret in the future?

Or maybe my choices would rise spontaneously from nowhere. Say some nobody shows up after my contract is over and invites me to specialize in materials science, and I follow through?

 

[Talshere]

Xlent.

While I acknowledge that I have an entire life ahead of me, and that I have plenty of time to decide what to specialize in, I still need to pick a school and a major.

So I have this engineering school that would give me a 3 year free ride complete with internships, as well as a guaranteed 3 year work contract (to pay off for the free ride) with full pay, as well as future education opportunities to pursue MBAs or Masters/PhDs. Yet I still can't decide which engineering discipline to pick: Electrical or Chemical? Maybe Petroleum Engineering? Whatever choice I pick, if I follow it, I would never get an opportunity to trade my degree for a different discipline after 3 years, kinda like the frost poem about the diverging road. How do I know which choices I would regret in the future?

Or maybe my choices would rise spontaneously from nowhere. Say some nobody shows up after my contract is over and invites me to specialize in materials science, and I follow through?

Actually, in this day and age its not uncommon for people in their 60's to have 3 or 4 unrelated different degrees where they have changed careers during their life. Uni tuition itself is only (I say only its still a lot and could soon triple) £3.5k a year. Its not uncommon for these courses to have only 5-10 taught hours a week. Conceivably, providing you had a sympathetic employer, you could fairly easily work a near full time job as well as being a full time student. If not, most uni's will do part time degrees, or you could use a program like open university which is distance learning at your own pace.

My Mum has a degree joint in Sociology & History, worked as a Quantity Surveyor after getting what amounts to another degree, for 20 years, and now works in procurement for a council for adult social services.

You know what I said about a degree being only the first step?

 

[Kill100577]

For me it has always bben a chemistry degree? Why because i fucking LOVE chemistry. Its incredible, not just the explosions and the bangs but the subltleties of it like colour changes and making new molecules.... So which course should you do? Whichever one gets you excited enough to get out of bed for you 9am lecture or stay up all night to finish a paper and that it is somthing you truely love

 

[zidine100]

A MASTERS Degree??? No, a master's degree takes far longer then four years. You're looking at a six year process if not longer.

In Britain an undergraduate degree is three years; a masters on top of that is usually an extra year. Thus four years.

doesnt that depend on the course, im quite sure some of my friends here a doing a four year course for undergraduate and so forth, or are we basing this on the english university's?.

 

[Lukeje]

A MASTERS Degree??? No, a master's degree takes far longer then four years. You're looking at a six year process if not longer.

In Britain an undergraduate degree is three years; a masters on top of that is usually an extra year. Thus four years.

doesnt that depend on the course, im quite sure some of my friends here a doing a four year course for undergraduate and so forth, or are we basing this on the english university's?.

Is it an undergraduate masters course? Or is this a Scottish/whatever other part of Britain that isn't England/Wales thing?

 

[emeraldrafael]

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Possibly, but I just kjow if i wanted my master's degree, I'd have to go for 6 years. But then again I'm going for accounting to make me CPA eligible and that takes 4 years, then the extra 2 for my masters.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Something you can actually use. Don't get a degree for the sake of it.