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[email protected] · June 22nd 16, 09:39 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:03:41 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:47:22 on Wed, 22 Jun
2016, d remarked:
As an aside, a third of my third year degree course was doing the entire
first year economics lectures - but not having to do all the course
work.

The other thirds were in the Maths department (mainly stats and game
theory) and the Engineering Department (what they called back then
'Operational Research' - applying algorithms to the planning of things,
and queuing theory).

I think there should be more multi-disciplinary degrees like that.

Depends if they lead to a better chance of a job at the end given the amount
students have to cough up these days.

If you don't understand economics then it leads to all sorts of poor
decisions.

I think modern students are pretty sussed on their own personal economics.
When you're going to have to pay back up to 27K for a 3 year course you're not
going to dick about with some jack of all trades degree if potential employers
want specialists.

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