Accounting is the most lucrative non-science/engineering degree

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drogue
We do. Damn good degree, though about the hardest workers at uni. The hardest at Oxford, though at most places medicine would be more work.

Law isn't a Bachelor's degree here. It's a JD or LLD.

Are you sure it's a bachelor's degree in the UK?

Here, Bachelor's Degree = 4-year undergrad program with only secondary education as a pre-req.

[Dauphin]

I feel like a sellout.

[KrazyHorse]

You are.

[Drogue]

BA vs BSc means nothing, except what the university want to call it. Cambridge Natural Sciences or Maths both give BAs.

[Asher]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Accounting is the most lucrative non-science/engineering degree

Originally posted by Drogue
No, other way round. British Empire fell when it stopped being dominated solely by Oxbridge Classicists and started to widen itself slightly. Universities used to be solely arts, when science became recognised was about when the Empire collapsed.

Any more silly trolls to through at it?

But the British Empire is still falling.

It's gotten to the point that you're Bush's footstool.

Even Canada has more of a spine.

[Verres]

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Originally posted by Asher
Can we correlate the rise of power of the artsy people in the UK with the downfall of the British Empire?

I like to think so.

Hopefully in a few decades you will be able to correlate (hopefully a science graduate can provide the formula) the rise of the power of artsy people in the UK with the downfall of the monarchy and the present system of government.

What else am I studying for...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drogue
BA vs BSc means nothing, except what the university want to call it. Cambridge Natural Sciences or Maths both give BAs.

BA vs BSc means a lot here in the civilized Western world.

BA has ridiculously easy admission requirements with ridiculously low standards, and hence ridiculously low starting salaries.

BSc students take BA courses for easy marks.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Drogue
BA vs BSc means nothing, except what the university want to call it. Cambridge Natural Sciences or Maths both give BAs.

I wouldn't get a BA degree unless I was going on to Law, Teaching, or further degree. The degree itself really won't get you a very good job.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Asher
Law isn't a Bachelor's degree here. It's a JD or LLD.

I know.

Originally posted by Asher
Are you sure it's a bachelor's degree in the UK?

Yes. So is medicine.

Originally posted by Asher
Here, Bachelor's Degree = 4-year undergrad program with only secondary education as a pre-req.

Here, bachelors = 3 year degree with A levels as a pre-req (a levels being optional secondary education). We do a year more school and a year less university.

But then we also study one course. You don't choose your major after a year, or have compulsory minors. Hell, at some places, you do you're whole degree in one subject, no minors whatsoever.

[Kidlicious]

I can't believe this thread became so popular.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You are.

A friend of mine from universtiy works for Defence and designs new ways to blow stuff up for a living. Sounds great, but pay is not that good.

Kind of job I'd do if I didn't want money.

[GePap]

MOst civlized states have Law as a Bachelors degree, because that is all it really requires. The only places that don;t are the US and anyplace that emulates the US, and NOT the European system.

[Drogue]

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Originally posted by Asher
But the British Empire is still falling.

It's gotten to the point that you're Bush's footstool.

Even Canada has more of a spine.

No, the British Empire fell when we lost our empire. We're now a nation. However much spine we have, we're not an empire.

Originally posted by Kidicious
I wouldn't get a BA degree unless I was going on to Law, Teaching, or further degree. The degree itself really won't get you a very good job.

Degrees get you jobs? Most graduate jobs (IIRC ~60% of them) here ask for any degree, just to have a degree. Moreover, when universities only offer BAs or BScs, in some cases, companies can't only look for BScs. Over here, a BSc doesn't mean you have done any more science than a BA. It just means that's the degree they offered in that subject.

Originally posted by Asher
BA vs BSc means a lot here in the civilized Western world.

Which is why, becuase of our long history of civilisation, the tradition of some places results in only giving BAs. Why distinguish? They're both bachelors, and it's obvious how much science/maths you've done by the degree title. Physics is a science, Philosophy an art.

Originally posted by Asher
BSc students take BA courses for easy marks.

We don't even have BA or BSc courses. You apply, are accept, and enroll on a certain course, BA or BSc, whatever degree course it happens to be.

[GePap]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Bias my ass. It's there to provide information to freshmen in university who can't make up their minds.

As such it's useful.

If you want freshmen to make up their minds, have them take core requirements so they actually experience the different professions. Lists like this certainly won't do it, as the low number of engineering students compared to liberal arts majors shows all too well.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
MOst civlized states have Law as a Bachelors degree, because that is all it really requires. The only places that don;t are the US and anyplace that emulates the US, and NOT the European system.

Your argument has reached even higher absurdity levels.

Now you're talking not only about degrees that are not comparable, but you're talking about other regions of the world as if it mattered?

The content of the study is bachelor's degree starting salaries in the USA.

Are you done making an ass of yourself yet?