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Are all degrees created equal?

  • 04-05-2010 09:08PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    Are all Irish universities the same? Are some colleges respected more than others? If you pay for your third level qualification are you desperate or privileged?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Get a job, hippy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    Get a job, hippy.

    Make me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,058 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Yes. Yes. Both, maybe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    Make me!

    I'm not qualified.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Initiative is the best thing you can have on a CV. So I reckon go for whatever you can and have a broad range of work experience.
    And always sleep with the lecturers to ensure good grades


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,789 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    All made from the same grade paper, yes.






    Pun shamefully meant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    Gosh I was really hoping this would turn into a Daddy's Business School bashing thead... :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    Gosh I was really hoping this would turn into a Daddies Business School bashing thead... :)
    I went to Daddy's Business School because I didn't bother studying.

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    I went to Daddy's Business School because I didn't bother studying.

    :pac:

    But you obviously know your grammar and I don't!!! Off to edit previous post... Daddy's/Daddies!!! Thank you....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    All degrees are equal, some are more equal than others.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,372 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    Are some colleges respected more than others?

    Definitely, in fact one of the criteria for rating colleges is based on how graduates are viewed by employers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭MrMatisse


    Lets cut the BS

    UCD, TCD Maybe UCC = GOOD, Worth the effort

    The rest= Glorified clown colleges

    I.T= HA HA HA HA !!!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Here a few tips for the university career.
    Your (possessive pronoun)
    You're (short for you are)

    Grammar (how to write)
    Grammer (not a word)

    If you really want some help about choosing a university try the Edu category on top of the page. Most schools have a forum there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Lets cut the BS

    UCD, TCD Maybe UCC = GOOD, Worth the effort

    The rest= Glorified clown colleges

    I.T= HA HA HA HA !!!:D

    Would you say that about this place?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Lets cut the BS

    Don't be silly, we need scientists. BAs should be cut first, if anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    Definitely, in fact one of the criteria for rating colleges is based on how graduates are viewed by employers

    ...and how are they viewed??? Just curious, I'm not filling out a CAO or anything, I got my BA and HDip from NUIM nearly 10 years ago... a lot of people I've met have thought I'm a stoner as went to Maynooth even though I'm not (I'm an alco!!!) do other colleges have stereotypes I've never come across?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    biko wrote: »
    Here a few tips for the university career.
    Your (possessive pronoun)
    You're (short for you are)

    Grammar (how to write)
    Grammer (not a word)

    If you really want some help about choosing a university try the Edu category on top of the page. Most schools have a forum there.

    Thanks for that, edited as such. I don't want help choosing a college, I'd prefer a discussion... have I spelled that correctly?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    DBS actually stands for Dumb Blonde School . . . :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    Thanks for that, edited as such. I don't want help choosing a college, I'd prefer a discussion... have I spelled that correctly?
    Actually I should apologise, correcting spelling is frowned upon in After Hours.
    Sorry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    colleges are certainly not created equally and neither are degrees

    if you want an average degree that will get you an average job with average pay in average ireland then pick any of our uni's or dit(which is a university fyi)

    if you want to something more than that but dont want to splash out then pick any of our uni's and work your ass of for a first class honours and then use your new found knowledge and maturity to evaluate your options for post grad study either in ireland or abroad

    in a very very limited range of subjects we have some really really good post grad courses and research departments

    for everything else, theres the rest of the world


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    PeakOutput wrote: »
    colleges are certainly not created equally and neither are degrees

    if you want an average degree that will get you an average job with average pay in average ireland then pick any of our uni's or dit(which is a university fyi)

    if you want to something more than that but dont want to splash out then pick any of our uni's and work your ass of for a first class honours and then use your new found knowledge and maturity to evaluate your options for post grad study either in ireland or abroad

    in a very very limited range of subjects we have some really really good post grad courses and research departments

    for everything else, theres the rest of the world


    DIT is a Uni??? Can anyone confirm my ignorance? (apart from those who already have of course!!!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I have a degree in Systems & Networking with job experience to back it up.

    Many job interviewers and recruitment offices have told that while I have the experience the degree essentially don't mean diddly shìt nowadays.

    That's why I'm off doing my Comptia courses (N+ exam on Friday and then straight into the 2 A+ exams)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Lets cut the BS

    UCD, TCD Maybe UCC = GOOD, Worth the effort

    The rest= Glorified clown colleges

    I.T= HA HA HA HA !!!:D

    UL is really sought after by Employers apparently as of there half term coop education i.e study abroad or work experiance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭ya-ba-da-ba-doo


    Lets cut the BS

    UCD, TCD Maybe UCC = GOOD, Worth the effort

    The rest= Glorified clown colleges

    I.T= HA HA HA HA !!!:D

    Firstly, that's such an ignorant post.

    Secondly, UL, DCU, NUIG, Queens(in the north but still) - All great Unis.

    Forget the name of it but the Art college in Dublin is brilliant if you're into that kinda stuff.

    I'm in one of the colleges you named as being good doing science and i have friends in WIT with 5 or 6 hours more than me, and science has a good few hours.


    It only matters to a certain degree what college you go to, if you have drive you'll get past the prejudice people like you have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Seloth wrote: »
    UL is really sought after by Employers apparently as of there half term coop education i.e study abroad or work experiance.

    Right you are, alas there's quite a bit of snobbery around here. Moreso when it comes to discussing colleges/unis than when discussing society or class because its not cool to be a class snob


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    No, all degrees aren't created equal.

    Medicine > Media studies , for example.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Seloth wrote: »
    UL is really sought after by Employers apparently as of there half term coop education i.e study abroad or work experiance.

    Ditto for DCU


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    ...and how are they viewed??? Just curious, I'm not filling out a CAO or anything, I got my BA and HDip from NUIM nearly 10 years ago... a lot of people I've met have thought I'm a stoner as went to Maynooth even though I'm not (I'm an alco!!!) do other colleges have stereotypes I've never come across?

    I remember a great headline at the start of 3rd year in UCD.

    'UCD students exchange cigarettes for blowjobs'.

    The rents definitely hesitated when paying my fees.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭muffy


    My opinion on this is that many institutions have courses that other universities do not offer, or a particular course in an institution may be the best in the country, but on a whole that institution my be "less respected" than others.
    For example- the course I study is the best course in the country in the field, but my college, DIT, isn't as respected as say, Trinity, by some. But at the end of the day, employers in the industry I want to work in will recognise my course as the best, and will probably know alot of my lecturers, etc.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    'UCD students exchange cigarettes for blowjobs'.

    Oh please, girls in my secondary school were doing that in second year


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