University Courses with good career prospects

Dunroamin

tunde10 wrote: »

Haha, well either way its an option.

I must sound like a parent interferring to some of you. But maybe if more people helped advice younger people they know before picking useless degrees, there wouldn't be record number of unemployed graduates right now. But that might just be me...

But you don't sound as if you're much older than your friend, you've never been to university and (I don't mean to be rude) you seem to know very little about it. None of these make you a suitable person to give advice, however well meaning.

tunde10

Dunroamin wrote: »

But you don't sound as if you're much older than your friend, you've never been to university and (I don't mean to be rude) you seem to know very little about it. None of these make you a suitable person to give advice, however well meaning.

Erm, i don't know what you are talking about. How did you assume i did not go to University?

For your information, i went to University to study Accounting and Finance (hinted at the in my first post) which i completed in 2010 and got a 1st class degree in. The led to me getting a decent enough role in Finance where they are funding me to become fully qualified in my profession. This should happen by next year.
Also i lived on Campus they first year so i also know all the other benefits of going to Uni, meeting new people etc.

You may be right that i don't so much about most courses so that is why i asked on here for suggestions so i can make a list and pass it on. That was all that was going to happen. He has already seen careers advice and still doesnt know so i'm sure a whole list of potential courses would have actually been useful to him.

Either way i understand your point of view, but trust me i am not interfering in the way you seem to think. There is no way he would even listen to me if i tried to make him do something he did as you mentioned i'm not much older.

haycorns

you sound like a good friend who is seeking advice so that you can help him. I agree, people need to go to uni with some kind of plan in mind to make the fees worthwhile. It is not worth racking up the debt for 3 years of fun times if you are still going to end up working in Sainburys - you may as well start at the bottom and work up and not have the debt.

However, i still believe a good university education gives you many more options if you make a few informed choices at the begininng and you develop a number of plans/ options ,. If you choose the wrong course for the market place or the wrong course for you, its hard to recover from that and could be an expensive mistake.

Hats off to you - you are asking all the right questions

tunde10

haycorns wrote: »

you sound like a good friend who is seeking advice so that you can help him. I agree, people need to go to uni with some kind of plan in mind to make the fees worthwhile. It is not worth racking up the debt for 3 years of fun times if you are still going to end up working in Sainburys - you may as well start at the bottom and work up and not have the debt.

However, i still believe a good university education gives you many more options if you make a few informed choices at the begininng and you develop a number of plans/ options ,. If you choose the wrong course for the market place or the wrong course for you, its hard to recover from that and could be an expensive mistake.

Hats off to you - you are asking all the right questions

Thanks, that's exactly what my post was about. I guess peoe just assume the worst of people withiut actually knowing much about my relationship with the person. The boy is really unsure what to do & im sure any help would be useful.

I have seen & heard of so many people unemployed for so long after graduating that i feel it makes sense to plan ahead in these times. Gone are the days when i degrees were somethin special.

Anyway i did get some really good answers and i will compile a list over the weekend. Hopefully he will see some courses he likes and research the further on the websites suggested.

zagubov

Wyndham wrote: »

My first degree was Maths. My second was Science Fiction. It's a talking point if nothing else

Now you've got my attention!
What was that like!

de_g.

Don't knock either Media Studies or new universities - my postgrad degree from a new university has served me well, while I know someone who has gone on from Media Studies (at a new university no less!) to working as a producer at the Beeb.

From a practical point of view and based on my own experience, the geography is a good direction to take, and opens up a very wide range of subjects (and careers) from anthropology to planning and transport studies. In terms of planning there are a reasonable number of scholarships in housing, planning and regeneration, and while the market is fragmenting at the moment, in three to four years a lot of the new firms now starting up are going to be taking on graduates.

persa

OP, it's perfectly easy to walk into an accountancy role without having studied the same degree as you. You need a relevant degree to become a doctor or an engineer, but any degree can lead to a career in finance and/or general management.

Rather than try to steer the lad into signing up for a degree that doesn't interest him (it's essential to enjoy the subject, makes a good result more likely), encourage him to apply for a place at a 'good' university and to do as much as possible when there.

What many students/graduates don't bother to do is to sign up for clubs and societies (and run for positions), volunteer (very part time is fine) work (it shows drive, as well as helping to pay for the course) and ensure any dodgy behaviour makes it nowhere near the WWW in pictorial form (recruiters do google candidates). Being able to truthfully say you've made the most of your uni life and evidence this makes you as employable as possible. The degree is only one tiny part of the story.