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Preferred type of degree on the job-market
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Was wondering what sounds better when applying for jobs later on:
A single honor degree or a joint one?
As far as I understood, when you take a joint, you go less in dept than with a single subject.
A single honor degree or a joint one?
As far as I understood, when you take a joint, you go less in dept than with a single subject.
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As for less in one department. Yep- I'm majoring in computer science and minoring in management. Most unis are the same.
Bopz
To be honest I don't think it really matters. At keele uni you have to do a joint honours I believe, but I have never heard or known of anyone getting any different treatment, preferantial or otherwise, from having the wrong degree in terms of single or joint. I would guess that maybe joint honours are often taken by people with interets in a couple of areas who are keen to get a qualification in both, thus maybe keeping their employment oppurtunities more open into the bargain.
As for going into less depth, stands to reason if you have more topics or subjects, you can't go into as much detail as if you were doing a more 'narrow' course so to speak, covering less territory.
If you want professional exemptions as a result of your degree, such as with Law, then you have to do the subject with enough depth to get them. If you want an education, then it doesn't matter so much.
I do Law with Politics, so I mostly do Law but I have some politics (about 1/3 of my degree at the end). This gives me a broad degree, but one that covers my professional exemptions (which I probably won't even use now lol)
And have encountered a lot of universities offering politics and international relations, which is pretty relevant. But I've also come across single international relations, and international relations with history.
You may cover less topics, but the ones you do, will be in the same amount of depth as any university modules.
Why don't you look up some CV's of people who have the job you want, and see what they did their degrees in?
Join honours of International Politics with a language would be good. Or straight InerPol. If you are cleaver enough PPP.
I possibly know more than I should - PM me if you want more info.
As a general rule - it probly does not matter too much about joint vs single.... With the majority of jobs its the fact you have done a degree rather than what you have done it in (obviously witht he exception of degree specific roles).
FO