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What Degree to you Study for?
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what university are you currently studying for and how do you find it? also where do you go and whats it like?
i am at the stage in education life where is have to make the big decision of the degree that i want to apply for.
i recently went to Queen Mary's Uni and it was a bit of a disapointment!!!
so please would you give some details regarding teh Degree!!!
particualy maths, Economics, Biology and accounting and finance
i am at the stage in education life where is have to make the big decision of the degree that i want to apply for.
i recently went to Queen Mary's Uni and it was a bit of a disapointment!!!
so please would you give some details regarding teh Degree!!!
particualy maths, Economics, Biology and accounting and finance
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I have been slightly dissatisfied with the degree if I'm honest. The title should be the other way around, as it deals far more with logistics than it does transport and there's a little bit too much emphasis on warehousing for my liking, which didn't really come accross in the course literature when we started. The value of the degree is also not quite as good as the university has had us believe. It is still an advantage with some organisations, but overall so few companies actually request specific degrees these days that much of the advantage is gone.
As for the university, personally I quite like it and chose it over Aston and Loughborough. There aren't many that offer this particular course, but Huddersfield has the highest teaching rating of all that do and the facilities are certainly up to standard, although I imagine plenty of other universities are far better. The downside of studying at a university such as this is the stigma people attach to you for going to a former polytechnic. That's irrelevant claptrap these days though, so I simply ignore it, as do most employers. This sort of university also attracts a lot of less academically minded students, which unfortunately can be detrimental to the experience here.
As a town, I quite like Huddersfield. It's not huge, but it has a vibrant bar culture and plenty to do during the day and in the evenings. For clubs and gigs though it's usually necessary to go further afield, but with Leeds 20 minutes away, Bradford 30 and Manchester 45 that's no trouble at all. All major cities in the area are accessable 24 hours a day also, which is very handy indeed! Studying in Huddersfield definitely gets the thumbs up from me!
do u go to timepiece? lol
I am currently reading pathology and microbiology at the University of Bristol [/university challenge voice]
Occasionly. Yes, yes I do.
Im just finishing my degree in Education studies in Exmouth (part of plymouth uni) ive really enjoyed my time there. its mainly a teacher training college but they do other subjects too.
its great if you want somewhere small, and want to be a person not just a number! the nightlife is not that exciting! but we tend to have a good time anyway and it isnt far from exeter anyway.
Then i did an MSc at Imperial, but i wasn't at the central london campus but in Wye in kent, it was lovely it was really small and agricultural - which was good seeing as i was studying agriculture - we got to go out and play with cowes and stuff and it was in a beautifly little village and was a lovely campus, thought the night life was obv severly limited to like 3 pubs and the coop. The rest of imperial though i kind of got the impression was majorly up itself and on a parr with oxford and cambridge - and most people who i have met from there have thoght they were sligltly superiour to everyone else going to such a good uni.
Err so i'd say, its probably beter to pick a uni that has a combination of not only good teaching for the subject you want but also that you like the feel of - i went to sussex which has an excllent repuation for developmenty type things and hated the feel on the open day.
well i looked at my as results, and business studies was by far my best subject, so just looked into a few different business courses, and picked one i figured would be easiest, i guess going for most interesting would make more sense, but im lazy!!
Also, as i wasnt sure what i wanted with my future, I wish now I had gone for business management or business studies instead of human resource management, as it would have kept me on a much broader spectrum and my options more open. so thats what Id say to you, if your not sure what you want to do, go broad, maybe with a joint honours or something.
Oh, and remember u have to live where you study, so make sure you see the city and the campus and that it is the kind of place that you see yourself being happy,
good luck!!!
I chose my favourite A level subject and thought I'd make a career of it somehow, though I was unsure of what I wanted to do specifically.
My advice would be not to discount subjects you've not done before or those which don't seem like a natural progression from the choices you've already made. Oh, and if need be; most universities will allow you to change your course if you find there's something else you like when you're there.
Had previously started a maths degree at Newcastle uni and Business Studies at Northumbria. Quit both of those because they weren't for me, although I loved Newcastle to bits.
Warwick! That's where I have my sights set on going for maths! London school of economics wouldn't be a bad choice for the others you've got up there either. Biology is a bit of an odd one out
I highly recommend you pick something very specific.
I did Business Studies Degree and it's too broad you don't learn enough of anyone thing to be of use to you in real life
Where as one guy I know studied Business in the Food Industry and they taught him business, accounting, even cooking .. when he graduated all the big supermarkets were lining up to employ him in managerial type roles.
or maybe think of the subjects you enjoy or would find interesting.
good luck!
I decided just by looking through different prospectses and i knew that i would probably enjoy it due to the high practical and fieldwork content on the corse
You're doing my degree (more or less), but where I went to Sixth form. It's a small world, after all.
I'd really recommend Bristol as it's a wicked town and an awesome uni (well, for what I'm studying - I really wouldn't know about other subjects). However, it is the most popular uni in the country as far as applicants for places go.
But i would definetly say (like ginner) don't be afraid to chose a course that you have no previous knowledge with. Don't feel just like you studied something at A levels and did ok that you can't study something completely different at uni. I think someone else mentioned that just becasue you have an interest in something doesn't mean you are going to enjoy studying it in depth.
my two penneth is not to let people try to tell you that taking an unusual (or mickey mouse, as i get a lot from bored science/maths students) course is a bad thing. i got a graduate job within 2 months of graduating, and a lot of my mates who did more traditional degrees are still looking after nearly a year. if anything, i would say my degree helps me, cause my (now) boss says it made me sound interesting, and is a good talking point in interviews.