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Need some information here from normal people who what they are talking about. Bascially, its about honours degrees, like "joint honours", "single honours" etc. Are any considered superior/inferior to others? Could one act as a handicapp in a prospective employer? Any generaly useful info is appreciated.

Need some information here from normal people who what they are talking about. Bascially, its about honours degrees, like "joint honours", "single honours" etc. Are any considered superior/inferior to others? Could one act as a handicapp in a prospective employer? Any generaly useful info is appreciated.

Joint Honours is where you take two subjects together, although both are vastly cut down so you do like 50% of each course to gain a joint degree, e.g. Politics and Law.

Single Honours is where you all of one subject and gain a degree at the end of it.

Neither are really better then each other, a joint honours degree just allows you to expand your interests a bit.

All I'd add would be that if you're looking at a course which is effectively a qualification for a certain career, you need to consider how much less a qualification the joint honours is.

That's likely to depend on the specific course.

Or Archaeology and Ancient History, in my case. Cheers gamezfreak, just wondered whether there was an enormous amount of difference.

Dr Duck The Stampede wrote:
> All I'd add would be that if you're looking at a course which is
> effectively a qualification for a certain career, you need to
> consider how much less a qualification the joint honours is.
>
> That's likely to depend on the specific course.


Yeah true. Pain in the ass when you don't know what you only have a vague idea of what to do though.


typo

There's a difference between "and" and "with" courses.

"And" = 50/50
"With" = 75/25 usually. Ie. it's a main course "with" something else.

Remember - you can't spell 'dishonour' without 'honour'.

Or without "dish", you studmuffin.

From what I have seen, if you know exactly where you want your career to go, or have a very good idea which aspect of life you want to investigate, then a single honours degree is obviously going to give you the best grounding in that particular area, so in that respect, single honours is the way to go.

On the other hand, if you are unsure where you are heading or you feel that your potential career path would benefit from a good grounding in multiple subject areas, then a joint degree would seem like a good plan.

If you already have a company in mind, you could contact them and ask what kind of thing they are looking for, but that'd require more knowledge of the way you'd like your future to be than most people have before heading to university.

In my experience, Human Resources departments don't even look at what subject you've got the degree in, just that you have one.

For example, I have a degree in software engineering but waltzed into a Purchasing job.