Pass Degree in Physics

baselines

Just wondering is this worth much at all for employment and further education?
How would it compare to a 3 year arts degree or a 3 year commerce degree when going for masters?
In final year now (4th year) but have a bad feeling that i wont get my honors.

Would like a strait answer?

Son Goku

baselines wrote:

Just wondering is this worth much at all for employment and further education?
How would it compare to a 3 year arts degree or a 3 year commerce degree when going for masters?
In final year now (4th year) but have a bad feeling that i wont get my honors.

Would like a strait answer?

If you mean a Masters in Physics, then you wouldn't get in, a pass degree is explicitly ruled out in most applications.
As for business I wouldn't say it'd hit you that hard, unless you were going for actuary or something.

Carsinian Thau

For further education you'd need to do a HDip or something to become eligible for anything more.
As for employment, depends on the job but most of the better paid ones will go to better qualified people (no offence) but something along the lines of a lab technician should be possible if you're lucky.

BTW, cram as much physics into your head between now and summer and hopefully, you'll get lucky.
Good luck!

Civilian_Target

Yep - just not to get into the Physics industry!

Its great for banking, teaching or accountancy, anything thats generally pretty numerically applied with value a physics degree, regardless of the grade!

MonkeyWrench

I ended up doing a pass degree in physics from NUIGalway about 10 years ago now. At the time I was three years in to my degree but did not like the course all that much, the thought of working in this area did not appeal to me at all. Anyway, during that year I was having a few personal issues and completely failed my xmas exams which were worth 50% of that years grade. I studied like made for the summer exams and got a 1.1 in most of them, this was still not enough to take me through to forth year. I was disappointed at the time but now I do not regret it one bit. I went on to do a HDip in Computer science and have worked in a few IT industries since. I am now a senior on good money with an oppurtunity to go contracting pretty soon. The only time I was ever asked for college grades was my first job out of college, to most it looks as though I have an honours degree in Physics but noone really cares about that because now its all about industry experience.

So all I can say is that if you want to stay in the phyisics area you probably need to come out with at least a 2.1 to warrant getting onto a masters scheme or physics job but outside of physics it does not matter one bit...just my two cents...

r3nu4l

Carsinian Thau wrote:

For further education you'd need to do a HDip or something to become eligible for anything more.

Very true, a HDip in Physics will bring up your standards a good bit and will enable you to think about further options.

baselines

MonkeyWrench wrote:

I ended up doing a pass degree in physics from NUIGalway about 10 years ago now. At the time I was three years in to my degree but did not like the course all that much, the thought of working in this area did not appeal to me at all.

Thats more or less exactly the position that im in myself, not really into the coarse- in fact i have little or no interest in physics and the taught of working in that specific area is depressing.
I see the honers degree (fingers crossed ill get it, terrified i wont) as a stepping stone to something else.

What im planning to do is a masters in finance next year but without an honers degree i have yet to come across a college that would except anything less for applicants.