To ask if you could study any university degree, what would it be?

[Theda13]

Cost aside, of course. I’d choose to study History and Sociology.

This was my original choice, but my family said it would be useless in terms of job prospects.

If you could choose to study any course, what would it be?

Botany.

At Kew Gardens.

Printmaking.

You can get a stipend with many PhD’s - it was about £7k Pa when I did mine 25 years ago but it’s more now!

Art History or English Literature

I did IR and ended up being a maths tutor, so safe to say I’ve never used my degree apart from shouting at the TV when the news is on. Would love to do a maths degree, I have a level maths and further maths and really enjoyed it but I just wanted to do IR at the time. I don’t regret it and maybe when I’m older and my kids are gone I’ll go back and do it, DH said he would support it even though he doesn’t understand why anyone would willingly do maths.

If I had my time again I’d have love to have been a play therapist.
you need an undergrad and postgrad masters - I didn’t even go to college and get A-Levels!

Dress making or costume design

Creative writing or maths. I'd love the challenge of maths, but would probably get more out of a career in writing.

I have a BEd in primary ed.
I did love psychology and sociology, so might possibly do a psychology degree but would love to do one in photography 📷.

Mediaeval History.

Medicine! I’d be Christina Yang!

I've already got 4 degrees 😶 but if I did another one it would be in statistics

The same one I did, Sociology.

Cost free? Then physics. Astrophysics or maybe particle physics.. id be absolutely shit at it and no chance in Hell id ever get work off the back off it but id just love to try and learn that stuff. Seems fascinating.
Mind you id do any free degree

Maybe latin
or french
or biology

However it is harder for kids now as there is AI, jobs under threat, and possibly other students cheating.

I did English Lit, no regrets as I loved it and there weren't that many exciting options in those days.

With dd1 nearing the end of her degree and dd2 gearing up for starting hers this year, I've been SO envious looking round unis! I'd love to do something like linguistics. Couldn't possibly afford it.

Or interior architecture/design. That would be amazing too.

Maybe have a look at the online courses offered nowadays. Many reputable establishments (eg Harvard MIT etc) have set these up - very flexible, cheap and incredibly well taught by professors with a desire to disseminate knowledge.

Linguistics is fascinating, I agree - it’s the maths end of languages. I follow various linguistics profs on Twitter

Architecture. I did my degree in English as a mature student at 40 and loved it. Now I'm retired, I think architecture would be fascinating, but purely for fun.

Art History

I did law for fun at 46. I love the learning and subject but actually doing the exams and coursework is of course less fun. Unless you don’t care if you get a bare pass. But doing say 24 hour online exams is knackering! (And I know you are only supposed to spend 3-4 hours on them but no one did, everyone took the full 24. I was restrained and just did 15-16 so slept!

I do open learn short courses by the open university, they are good to keep up learning.

Philosophy.
Or anthropology. Studied a year of it then left to do nursing. Now I want to go back and study it all over again with a proper grown up brain that can appreciate it.

Or horticulture.

Ceramics and history of art . Would be my dream

History of art.

History with a focus on women's social history.

In reality, I'm a life scientist.

Economics or nutrition.
I did look into doing economics with the OU a couple of years ago, but my maths wasn't good enough. One of the reasons I didn't pursue it the first time, although I still find it fascinating.