To ask , if you went to university what degree did you do, is it relevant and would you do it again ?

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I did textile design, would do it again, pretty relevant to current job.

Philosophy - enjoyed it, but a bit pointless. Nothing to do with my actual career, which I had to do professional retraining for!

History and Urban studies. Followed by PGCE. Teach in an inner city school. (Primary) Would do Religious Studies if starting out now, or Sociology.

English literature . Glad I did it but it's not relevant to my job and never really been of any use to me ,except perhaps when my children were doing their A levels . A couple of them did English and it did mean could help them and they often came to me for opinions and advice

Yes, very relevant. I did a Geography degree and I’m head of Geography in a secondary school. I really enjoyed my degree but I don’t think I’d do it again. I’d choose something more creative. I’d love to be a jeweller who designs and makes their own pieces.

4 year BEd. After 25 years, I still can't think of any job I'd rather do than teach, despite the stresses, so it was a good choice. And I feel it did a better job of equipping me for primary teachinng, with a lot of experience of different schools compared to doing a PGCE.

I studied East Asian History. Nobody yet in any professional capacity has asked for my opinion on Chinese agrarian economics circa 620BCE.

I imagine if taught me useful skills which were valuable in the early days of my career and therefore helped me get a foot in the door back as a new graduate. But its entirely irrelevant to what I do now (I’m a Company Secretary) and I certainly wouldn’t pay £9,000 a year to get my degree nowadays.

Maths, and yes, because I needed it for my chosen career, I would however have picked a different university, I really disliked the one I attended.

Law and yes it was relevant.

But would I do it again? Maybe not.

I have IBD and although I have always been very interested in all things medical, I don't feel I could have managed a career as a physician. But nowadays the treatments are so much better, I might consider it.

I did do physio before law and although it was obviously medical, I found the work repetitive and just couldn't find any passion for the job.

I did manage to combine the two areas fairly well, but I still regret not trying for medicine.

Business Studies at degree (and BTEC OND) Marketing diploma, Market Research Diploma, Masters and then project management and quality stuff - all very relevant. Toying with Accountancy (although alot of that covered in previous stuff) or maybe even a Doctorate. All relevant to jobs I have had - QM, Business Improvement, Strategy, Policy, now running our own businesses - still small fry in the scheme of things but we are plotting

Microbiology...yes very essential! I have never been without work and there's so many avenues.

English. Essential to my job and would def do it again, though I also find Psychology fascinating.

French and Spanish. Never used it since and now the vocabulary I learned is so out of date, it is nearly useless (I did it pre-internet!). I wish I'd done a post-graduate in translation and actually used the degree, but it wasn't possible at the time.

Philosophy, Politics, Economics

No

Big regret is that I didn’t do architecture.

Sociology. I loved the subject, kind of relevant to my job, kind of not. I wouldn't do it again.

Civil engineering. I do use it every day in my job, but if I had my chance again I'd do something I loved and was passionate about. I really would love to study dressmaking and tailoring but I think it's a bit late now

English language and literature.

Loved it, and was an English teacher for a decade so it was relevant then. Not now, although being able to write a load of bullshit that sounds good is always helpful.

If I was doing a degree under the terms of my degree - £1,200 a year fees I think, about £2k a year in rent - I would definitely do it again.

Under today's terms? I don't think it would be worth £9k in tuition plus the incredibly high rent & cost of living.

Medieval history. No use whatsoever 😂 but I'd definitely do it again.

French and Spanish. Graduated 20 years ago and haven't used it since. Terrible waste really!

Ancient Mesopotamian History.

Would do it again in a heartbeat despite the fact my job as absolutely bugger all to do with it

English Literature. Essential to what I do now and relevant to all jobs I have had in the past.

I'd definitely do it again, and I love my job, so it was the right choice.

I did music and I’m now a classical singer so yes it’s relevant. However if I could go back I would have done something different for my undergrad degree (languages maybe) and then done my masters in vocal performance, which tbh was my real preparation for my job now. If I had a different first degree I would have more options should I ever want to not be a musician- the pandemic has not been kind to musicians and singers in particular!

Law. Essential for my job as I am a lawyer.

I don't use the law I studied at university, which is almost irrelevant to what I do on a day-to-basis but it is the skills of critical thinking and being able to digest reams of turgid text that would put an ordinary person to sleep and distil it to craft an argument, advice or policy or make a judgment call on a raft of facts and research pulled from a multitude of sources, including legislation.

I did mental health nursing and I wouldn't be in my career without it. More recently I have finished a post grad diploma in a specialist area. I haven't been able to get into that area of work yet but don't regret further study as it was enjoyable.

English Literature. Loved it at the time but it meant nothing in my subsequent career in IT (which I fell into, as you could in the 1990s).

Now would choose Geography, with a view to getting into town planning.

Fine Art -kiiiind of.
I realise now I approached it/ was encouraged to approach it all wrong. Basically, the developing your creative practice and theory bit you could do on your own by renting a modest workspace, going to loads of exhibitions, hanging out with other artists and just cracking on with it. The real benefit of art college is learning concrete skills on incredibly expensive pieces of equipment that you're never going to get access to outside college- kilns, darkroom (RIP), light boxes for screen printing, etc etc. I should have done more of that and less of the critical theory bollocks. And, of the practical stuff I did do, it shouldn't have been film based photography, which has been 99% superseded by digital now ☹

Saying that, I do have an arts based career now, but in a speciality that was almost completely self taught, and owes very little to my degree.