Finance Degree v Business Studies v Sport Science

[Dancingdreamer]

My DC is struggling to decide what he may want to do at uni. He likes the idea of Finance or Business Studies (particularly if he could combine this with a language) but the grades are quite high at the unis he likes. He is targeting unis like Bath and Durham because they have good teams for his sport.

An alternative is sports science where the grades at these unis are lower. This is appealing because of his sport interests and they claim the degrees would support his sport development too. However, it is unlikely that his chosen sport would ever earn him any decent money and I am not sure if sport science would really get him a good job anywhere afterwards. Any advice please?

Yes all the universities he is looking at would be very feasible for sports science as the entry grades are lower and his current performance level may help him look an attractive student. The issue is really whether he should study sports scene which would perhaps not be seen as positively by employers as a business or finance degree.

Having a sports science degree does not resutrict you to sports type jobs. My oldest DS has a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science and then applied for a graduate trainee position (which required a degree but did not specify which degree). Many programmes are like this. He graduated 6 years ago and earns a 6 figure sum and has just bought a property.

It is hard to decide. My advice would be go to somewhere like Durham and do a more general degree eg accountants at the best firms do not do finance degrees. They do all kinds but at very good places and then get taken on by PWC etc and do their qualifications then. So starting high rather than somewhere low ranking is probably going to help careers better.

Thank you all. I am beginning to think that any degree from a good uni would be better. We just need to balance that against where he is likely to thrive and get the best chance of a top degree class.