OU Business Studies Degree

joseph9a

Hi all, i'm considering begining to study for a degree. I cannot afford to goto university as I am unemployed disabled and have my own home with my girlfriend. I wanted to try and find a suitable job and do my degree of a night in my spare time.

there are 2 things I wondered really the first being is it easy enough to juggle a job and a degree course from home, and are the materials you recieve good enough to learn from. And the 2nd thing and the most important thing was which jobs would a business degree open up to me? i'm thinking that if you have a degree in this then lots of doors would be opened to you.

I am great on computers and am being told to pusue a career in computers by my family, but I find it too easy and not challenging at all. What i love to do is collect information say via surveys and produce charts and look for patterns, which I did in my last job. Is this something I may be doing for businesses?

Is Business the right degree for me?

Oldernotwiser

joseph9a wrote: »

Hi all, i'm considering begining to study for a degree. I cannot afford to goto university as I am unemployed disabled and have my own home with my girlfriend. I wanted to try and find a suitable job and do my degree of a night in my spare time.

there are 2 things I wondered really the first being is it easy enough to juggle a job and a degree course from home, and are the materials you recieve good enough to learn from. And the 2nd thing and the most important thing was which jobs would a business degree open up to me? i'm thinking that if you have a degree in this then lots of doors would be opened to you.

I am great on computers and am being told to pusue a career in computers by my family, but I find it too easy and not challenging at all. What i love to do is collect information say via surveys and produce charts and look for patterns, which I did in my last job. Is this something I may be doing for businesses?

Is Business the right degree for me?

The OU have careers advisors you could talk to about this or you could make an appointment for an interview with a Nextstep advisor for free, unbiased advice.
You could also do a degree that combines business and IT modules.

joseph9a

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

The OU have careers advisors you could talk to about this or you could make an appointment for an interview with a Nextstep advisor for free, unbiased advice.
You could also do a degree that combines business and IT modules.

Thankyou I'm gonna give them a call there open till 10 tonight so i'll do it after my tea. Thaks

BRSurvivor

I started doing some studying with the OU back at the turn of the century. My intention was to build into a business studies degree. I was doing a Level 1, and a Level 2 course if I remember correctly, both in Mathematics. I found it hard work, but I started in February, and at that time was still doing 2 A levels at the local college (1 year courses), and working 60+ hours a week.

I think the OU is fab in terms of flexibility, you really can learn when it's most convenient to you. In the year I was doing those two courses though, my local college started a Business Studies degree course with a local Uni, and I jumped for that. Two key reasons - it was far cheaper (£360 per year), and I had access to other people on the course (not always a benefit though!).

If your only commitments are a 40 hour a week job, and a part time degree course, your laughing (if you put the effort in). Seriously, when I started OU I was doing the two A levels, and working over 60 hours a week, and I ate, slept, worked and studied. Nothing else. On my degree course, I saw people a mother hold down a 'responsible' 40-50 hour a week managers job, look after her family (two pre-teen kids), and do well on the course. It's hard graft for 5 years part time though.