Which degree for most lucritive job?

Your degree does not push you into the most lucrative areas. All it does is show you are interested in the area.

If you want to earn big bucks, be good at what you do and constantly look to push yourself.

If you want to earn a decent amount of money and do shag all go become a teacher or some form of civil servant where its more difficult to get fired from.

You want a 1st class degree from a good University on a decent course to ensure more doors are left open for you.

A couple of years ago everyone wanted to go into actuary because the money was great.

Now everyone wants to become an accountant because the money is great

The newer trend developing is everyone wants to become a "investment banker"

And before those 3 you had everyone wanting to become a programmer of some sort.


Just go for what you like - all of the above pay ****e if you suck. They pay amazing if you are good.

juanveron45 wrote:

I know its not the best reason to do something but I was wondering what area is best to get into if making money is your main aim, what degree should one go for?

Also disregard law and medcine or anything you would have to do 7 years in uni or college for ,Im talking 4 years of a bsc degree?

From reading all of your threads in this forum its is quite apparent that money is your main drive, the thing is you don't want to work towards it!

You are going to have to start off on the ground floor just like everyone else, find something you are interested in (may I suggest banking as you are obviously fascinated by money) and work hard at it. There is good money to be made in every field of work out there, it is only the select few that earn it though as they are mostly passionate about what they do

Just some info concerning trading / banking as people seem to read those little books about how great it was or fun it was etc.

1 - For the first 4 / 5 years your hourly wage averages out to 6 pounds an hour. (M&A)

2 - They fire you the second any sort of downturn happens

3 - The money you get is a %%% of what you have earnt. Earn nothing - please **** off (A bank pays aaround 500k a year for 1 trader's deskspace).

So while you shouldn't BS and say money isn't important don't just be some fool that jumps into an industry because it has the highest salary.

No such thing as a free lunch in life.

Good tradesmen earn very decent wages, its also very easy to set up your own company and earn a fortune (if you're willing to work like a horse).

engineering degree tbh

something like 85% of managing directors in all companies are engineering graduates

And whenever you do get into college make sure to do a work placement for 9 - 12 months even if the university doesnt offer it as part of the course (Take a year out).

Its useful on so many levels its not even funny.

the 85% is wrong sort of
its based on a report done about 5 years ago in the USA (I'll see if I can find the link).

they looked at the top several thousand companies in the USA (based on turnover, staff etc) and they looked at the qualifications of the executive board and senior managers

Approx 80% of top managers/ceo had Engineer/Physics Degress, 10% had Maths degress and the everything else in last 10%.

think about it. Most companies are technology dependant and/or manufacture some thing hence a large number of technology based people.

If you have have a company that makes widgets who do you want as the boss? Some bean counter or arty/business type who doesn't really under stand what you do or someone who knows what you do, how it works, what its for etc.

Think of the all the companies in Ireland even the USA ones Intel, HP etc they all have technology people as the head. I think even Air Lingus with Wille Walsh( think he had a B.Eng).
Several top civil servants in UK have B.Sc/B.Eng same here.

I agree some financial companies may have business types as their heads but I bet apart from the financials you will find a lot that have B.Eng/B.Sc at the top.

Actually a log of the top finance companies use science grads to create their mathamatically modesl in order to maximise their profits. The maths is normally very complex and requires specialist skills ( not going to get a business grad to do that)

It is very easy to teach business skills to anyone (mostly commone sense) after college but very hard to teach scientific skills after college. Once you have a good science background its easy to learn the business stuff and progress that way.

Of course you should pick a subject you like not just one you think will you good money.

xebec wrote:

If you definitely want money, but don't want to cut down your options about exactly what you want to do then consider Management Science & Information Systems Studies in TCD.

My class are graduating this year, with a wide variety of careers prospects and wages. At the top of the earning bracket are those going into trading for an investment bank and those going into consulting (like me) who can expect to start on more than £30,000 plus a sign-on and rising steadily from there - the trader could be earning mega bucks within a year, it's all about talent in that business. Of those in Ireland, the highest offer this year is for a consultancy offering €30,000, with most other graduate programs in the mid-20 thousands.

Afaik, everyone in the class who wants a job for next year already has at least one offer.

BIS in UCC has a similar "prospectus". Honestly, the real world and what they promise you in uni are not one and the same. The degree you do has far less of an impact on what jobs you can get than people think (excluding professions like Engineering, Medicine etc). I'm not cutting down your degree or anything, I'm sure the top half of your class will get excellent jobs but the people coming out and scraping 2.2's or passes mightn't find life so rosy and with the way grade inflation is going a 1H degree today is worth a lot less than a 1H degree 5 or 10 years ago, which also plays a factor.