Social science graduates 'have best job prospects'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24707507

Social science graduates 'have best job prospects'

Students with an eye on their job prospects should take social science degrees, research suggests.

Social science graduates are more likely to be in paid employment than arts or science graduates, according to analysis of official data.

They are also more likely to be in managerial or senior roles, says a Campaign for Social Science study.

The authors analysed data on graduate destinations from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Some 84.2% of social science graduates were employed three years after graduating, compared with 79% of arts and humanities graduates and 78% of graduates with science degrees, the figures suggest.

The HESA figures, published in August, revealed the career paths of more than 62,000 recent graduates, three and a half years after they left university in 2009.

The researchers define social sciences as including economics, management, business studies, anthropology, sociology, criminology, human geography, media studies, town planning, education and politics.

The figures showed that 7.6% of social science graduates in employment were classed as managers and senior officials, compared with 3.6% of those with science degrees and 6.2% of those with arts and humanities backgrounds.

The analysis found more than 70% of social science graduates were in professional or associated technical occupations, while some 7% worked in finance and insurance.

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[JimC]

Well, a social science degree will certainly teach you how to bullshit with the best of them, a skill much desired by today's modern employer...

[cronus]

Well, a social science degree will certainly teach you how to bullshit with the best of them, a skill much desired by today's modern employer...

We'd have never left the trees without some fire-razing bullshit artist saying there's more trees on the other side of the savannah, ignore the smoking ones behind.

[laklak]

Are you really sure you want fries with that? It's full of transfats, you know.