What's the best degree to have?

burrenguy

As the title says: assuming that they have the points, what do you think are the best courses/degrees to pursue in an Irish college these days? In terms of their earning potential, employment prospects, crossover to other areas etc.
I ask this as someone heading into Leaving Cert and probably Third Level afterwards who wants to keep his options open.
Thanks.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Arts degree.


You ask anyone working in a take-away, behind a bar, video game shop or emptying bins. All of them hold arts degrees.

woodoo

Ancient History specialising in Pottery.

Mine is the best.

frozenfrozen

Depends what irish college you go to, inis iorr has door jam making so you could do that in between surfing and pros. not sure where the money comes into it but sure irish college is just about a bit of fun over the summer while you learn a bit of irish anyway

generalmental

Hopefully the one that you want!!

House of Blaze

A pedigree.

onethreefive

One you can see yourself being happy doing.

dodderangler

90

longhalloween

Women's studies with Philosophy. The job opportunities are endless.

lanarty56

Basket weaving and jam making from ucc university college connemara

Mrs Garth Brooks

Degrees are useless.

Timmyctc

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

Arts degree.


You ask anyone working in a take-away, behind a bar, video game shop or emptying bins. All of them hold arts degrees.

Ah come on now. You're better than that broken record of a joke surely.

dmc17

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

Degrees are useless.

No they're not. They're great for measuring things like angles and temperature

diomed

Something that deals with people: brain surgeon; dentist; anaesthetist, priest.
Everything else will be replaced by computers, and robots, and stuff.
And you can't specialize and get big pay, and also be able to cross over to loads of other areas.

pauliebdub

Something technical that provides the student with valuable skills that can help them find work.

I would consider most arts and humanities degrees to be a waste of time and money.

WoollyRedHat

Yeah Fahrenheit is the way to go

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Timmyctc wrote: »

Ah come on now. You're better than that broken record of a joke surely.

Jesus Timmy, that's probably the nicest thing anybody on boards has ever said to me. I feel like a horrible cnut now.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

Degrees are useless.

And what leads you to that conclusion?

mad muffin

Nth degree. Nothing beats it.

Gmaximum

6 of kevin bacon

Mrs Garth Brooks

Candie wrote: »

And what leads you to that conclusion?

The dole degree

SaveOurLyric

The only one you dont want is someone giving you the third.

Bepolite

Medicine, followed by anything that leads to investment banking. Law is just an arts degree unless you have or make contacts.

TBH it doesn't matter what you do - just deal drugs while doing it: Thats where the money is.

dr.bollocko

Not everyone who does an arts degree ends up working at Mc. Donalds. Part of the boards mentality to dis all arts degrees and it just ain't the truth.

pauliebdub

The Cunning Linguist wrote: »

Arts degree.


You ask anyone working in a take-away, behind a bar, video game shop or emptying bins. All of them hold arts degrees.

I know four Arts graduates, one works in IKEA, another works in a book shop, another has become a team.leader in a call centre, the other has gone back to study something else.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

The dole degree

Then it was the wrong degree.

The best degree of all is a degree of common sense.

Timmyctc

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Not everyone who does an arts degree ends up working at Mc. Donalds. Part of the boards mentality to dis all arts degrees and it just ain't the truth.

I have an arts degree and look at me! I've been on boards for like 276 hours straight. Haven't showered in two days, Finished Half Life 2 yesterday and I'm making leaps towards finishing Deus Ex 1 on realistic mode today. And they try to say arts degrees are useless.

Timmyctc

pauliebdub wrote: »

I know four Arts graduates, one works in IKEA, another works in a book shop, another has become a team.leader in a call centre, the other has gone back to study something else.

I know four. One went to work for Financial Times now works in some programming job. One is doing a placement at the college he studied it at with a view to being taken on at a job in London and I think the other has a job in AIB. The degree doesn't define what will become of the person. It's the person that defines it.

Gosub

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Not everyone who does an arts degree ends up working at Mc. Donalds. Part of the boards mentality to dis all arts degrees and it just ain't the truth.

Now marketing degrees...

coffeepls

Having an arts degree is the stepping stone to doing a post grad in many areas. It's very general - and despite people going on and on about 'd'ya want fries with that' - there are many professionals that have arts degrees, but most would have followed that with a post grad of some sort. A degree is only useless if you choose to do absolutely nothing with it. Just having a degree is not going to cut it for anyone..... unless you have a daddy who has promised you a fortune and a seat in the boardroom as long as you have a few wee letters after your name.