Dd wants to drop out of uni 1st year maths degree

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As you know uni students have had it hard this year with online studying. She wants to drop out. Need advice on what she can do next. Maybe apprenticeships? Dont know where to turn for advice.

My DS dropped out of an engineering degree at the end of Yr 1 as he decided it was not for him. He took a year out (worked in retail) and then went to a different Uni to study History. He loved it so much he's now doing a Masters although no idea what he will do next - but he is happy and enjoying his studies and Uni life (even in lockdown).

Does the course have options for second/third year like modules that you can vary the direction you go in? My DS is doing maths (in second year) and is finding it much more interesting now he can choose some of his own topics/modules - he's really enjoying programmning where he'd never looked at that before

Like a PP I did a joint honours in maths (and CS) - degree level maths just wasn't what I was expecting though much like your daughter's finding - I wish I had transferred to full computer science rather than sticking it out.

She may find more interesting modules in higher years, the issue with doing a full maths degree is that's a lot of modules to fill (potentially of subjects she hates). At least with the joint honours we could drop all the 'pure' stuff after year 1 and just stick with applied modules for the other years as we only had to fill 50% for our maths module quota.

If she likes the applied side of it maybe she could have a look at engineering based courses? Although there's still some maths involved, it's the more fun part (If it's applied maths she actually likes that is!)
I noticed a PP discouraged computer science, to be honest that's up to her as to whether she will find it boring . My course involved computer vision, AI, intro to Data science... maybe geeky but certainly relevant and in my case quite a few years before this stuff became 'mainstream' enough to be talked about on MN .