Most of my friends that went to uni are now working in adsa/tesco stacking shelves or call centres. They all passed thier course, with high levels (1st etc) but have still ended up on minimum wage or doing some other mindless jobs.

They all admit that it was pretty much a very expensive party.

It very much depends on what degree you take, how much you put into it, your result, who you know and to some extent luck.

Lol, unless you want to work in law, medecine, engineering, research, technical consultancy, or any one of a massive number of careers in the city. Not to mention any kind of management.

Not entirely true actually

Unless you want to be a slave at an investment bank on one of their graduate recruitment programs - spend 2 years working your ass of 14 hours a day & no guarantee of a front office position at the end of it anyway - no thanks tbh....

There are several hundred thousand people working in the city and only a fraction of them had to go through that milk round bollocks. Brokers need to have good interpersonal skills and traders need to be disciplined and analytical neither actually *need* to have degrees.

Plenty of doors can be opened in the city by simply getting your FSA exams under your belt. Having said that it is no disadvantage actually having a degree and (though not essential) it still preferable to not having one.

In terms of the general subject of the thread whether or not youve got a degree is dependent on the career you intend to pursue.