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?

I did English and American Lit because I loved it and then pursued it at masters and PhD level. I now lecture in American Lit and still love it. I’m doing a part time masters on the side in International Relations just because I’m interested and can afford to.

If I could do infinite degrees I’d choose to do digital humanities too.

Anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at SOAS.

If I did my degree again I'd choose something like shipping and logistics or urban planning. I ended up first time doing nurse training, realised it wasn't me and then switched to my other interests and did a science degree. My A Levels were all health based, I should have just stuck with normal A-Levels.

I don’t know what the degree would be called but I’d love to work with documents going back hundreds of years. I love it when we see someone on the tv wearing white gloves bringing a document from those big storage units to a table where they’re placed for someone to read. I’d be in 7th heaven if I’d been the one to trawl through other documents to find the relevant one.

I have a friend who moves huge oil tankers around the world making sure they’re where they should. It’s fascinating.

archive/ museum/ library studies!

For sheer enjoyment? Classics. If I was relying on career prospects, some kind of forensic pathology/forensic science.

In reality, I have a nursing degree and am in my final year of an English Lit degree that I did for my own enjoyment.

So funny to see the paths we would all have chosen if we could have followed our hearts and not our heads. I hated every second of my professional life ( now retired). Our dd is at Art college and is living the dream and although I had misgivings and lots of them, I can’t stop myself feeling proud that she has got to do what she wanted.

Creative Writing masters at UEA. If I won the lottery I'd do it straight away.

I am a retired District Nurse, I wish now that I’d done Fine Arts and a career in restoration. Too late now 🙁

I did psychology.

If I had to do my time.again, I'd still do psychology. At the same university and with the same lecturers. It was fantastic.

I'm not a psychologist but I use it every day at work.

I also have music degree and would.love to do a history degree.

Geology or Geophysics as an undergrad then after masters in volcanology to be a volcanologist! Or go another route and study astronomy! Or astrophysics! English literature with a focus on Shakespeare! Er. I could go on. I have dreamed of so many alternate paths because there is so much I find interesting! In real life, I did Law and an LLM in international human rights law … loved the education and don’t regret it. There’s just so much out there …

It’s never too late 😊

I'm a sociology academic 😅

If I was doing it now or in future or just for interest it'd be anthropology or history.

If I was 18 and doing it for career prospects I'd try and do a degree apprenticeship with a biopharmaceutical company and specialise in engineering biology.

If I was going to do one now it would be purely for personal interest as I’m in my 60s and retired, with no plans to return to work.

I would do something like English literature, history of art, or music. My husband did a law degree in his 70s (again purely for personal interest).

I actually work multi modal with shipping containers. Its a fascinating industry. I wish I'd got the relevant degree as it would have been easier working for a large shipping company or freight forwarder.

I am curious....what degree would you need for that?

I studied History with German and got a lot of medieval history in, both at my home university and during my year abroad (which I spent studying in the History Dept at Hannover University): I studied modules on an Introduction to Medieval History, medieval universities, and ideas and intellectuals in Medieval Europe. A slightly later time period, but in Hannover I also did a module on witch trials, which was based at the local archives, reading original C15th texts! Then in my 4th year back in Bristol my dissertation was on the Romance of the Rose and how it reflected academic debate.

Graphic design or Fine art. I was talked out of a creative degree, dropped out of my sensible degree and ended up working in a designed based job anyway. I wouldn't have been happy otherwise.

Transport and logistics?

I knew someone who did some type of logistics degree, he ended up working for the Aussie government.

Surely the most important and relevant degree to do in the current climate would be David Beckham studies?

I am surprised that's a degree subject.
I would have thought it's more of an apprenticeship/learning on the job thing.
But I never went to university so I don't really know how it all actually works.

I delayed uni until I was already working in the industry I wanted to be in & I think that needs to be normalised. Uni at 18 isn’t really an ‘experience’ that adds value if you’re going to need to go into debt for it. I do think if they made the first 2 years of a medicine qualification work and practical based (and tdegree could only be applied for after your results in year two) the profession, overall, would attract people better suited to be doctors.

You can do specific shipping management degrees at some Maritime universities, I'm thinking of Southampton off the top of my head.

I did Literature but I wish I’d done nursing x