I got a 2:1 in Building Surveying and can i get a Surveyors job?........ ehm, no. No i cant.
Doesn't matter what degree you end up with, you won't find a job anyway. At least thats what moaning graduates keep telling me
Yes but where from?
The place of study is far more important than the grade achieved.
Personally I feel some of my international lecturers bring the most of my course. Dr Guha who has now unfortunately left Bristol was one of my best lecturers in my first year. He came from India on the Price of Wales scholarship and ended up doing a PHD at Cambridge. He commanded more respect from the lecture hall than any of my first year lecturers.
Really? I can't comment of if this is true or not, but if I was to recieve an application from an Oxbridge garduate with a 3rd or a lower ranked Uni with a 1st or 2:1, surely the grade would look far better?
A uni course has no set standard. EG an Alevel in Maths is the same, no matter where it was achieved.
Degrees are completely different, if you do a subject at a poo uni it is worth so so so much less than a good one.
It is true and it is quite cruel having all these universities with silly csubjects (or proper ones that are just too easy), giving students false hopes in life.
If you sociology at Staffordshire uni, you will be working in a supermarket for £12k p/a![]()
Dr Guha was indeed a LEGEND. Brilliant man, sadly a little too brilliant for me though, fluid & thermodynamics was my most mind-bending subject. His pronunciation of 'reservoir' confused us for a bit though, as well as 'fuel' (at least I think that's what it was...) - did he play the Flanders and Swann tune for you too?
That's quite a scary thought. I'm currently in the process of applying to going to Uni to studying Computing. I've had offers from UWE, Salford and Sheffield Hallam. I was going to choose either Salford or Sheffield Hallam, for various reasons, even though UWE is ranked higher!
I may need to think about that one again now! It's horrible applying for Uni, due to the fact that my course at College is only a year and the highest ranked Uni I've applied for is UWE. There are currently people on my course at College with offers from higher ranked Uni's, that I'm performing better than them! Makes me think that I should have applied for one of the top ranked Uni's.
No end of my friends have done degrees at what older people call a 'poly' rather than a 'uni'.
If you want good job prospects in life, PLEASE don't go to Hallam!
I would say computing or computer science is a good course if done at a high rank uni (where the course material is broad and challenging).
No end of people say to me, 'isn't uni easier than Alevels' (and these people have done easier Alevels like PE and psycology)! If a degree is easier than Alevels then something is seriously wrong!
Would you say that as I'm doing 'Computing' and not Computer Science that this would put me at a disadvantage?
I know a few people who are at Hallam and they are in their final year now, one of them has been offered a job working in Manchester that he's got from his placement year. Has he just got lucky?
I'm 22 and I'm struggling to make a decision of where to attend. God knows what it's like for a 17/18 year old!![]()
Really? I can't comment of if this is true or not, but if I was to recieve an application from an Oxbridge garduate with a 3rd or a lower ranked Uni with a 1st or 2:1, surely the grade would look far better?
I am an engineer, not a computer scientist sorry so cannot say.
Your friend's work performance may have been very good as they kept him on, however I would say for certain a Hallam graduate won't be taking home a gecent 'grad' wage, I bet he won't even be paying his loan off (£15,000p/a min).
Uni used to be a place to boost your earning potential for the high end students, now it seems any old retard can get in to some sort of university now, as it seems any old rubbish college can rebrand itself with a bit of work.
If you do something at Hallam, I would say that it will not allow you to earn enough £££ more to be worth your time and get you in all that debt.
As an engineer, the good courses are accredited by institutes (eg IMECHE for mech eng). Why is this important? Well without an accredited course you cannot become a chartered engineer.
Well, at the end of the day() it's obviously most advisable to take a well regarded course at a well respected university
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Is it the great thing it once was?