BF2S Forums Well, I have no idea what to do in the future.

Bertster7 wrote:

1.5 sucks wrote:

Pochsy wrote:

Are you still allowed to apply to MA programs in subjects you didn't take in your undergraduate? Even if the MBA won't help as much over there it still offers the most opportunity for the least amount of work. Or at least I would think so.

If you take a degree in media studies for your BA at Lincoln University and achieve a first, and then subsequently apply for an MA in Classics at Oxford, you are unlikely to be successful.

But if you read English at UCL and got a 1st, then applied to read Classics at Oxford, you'd be in with a good shot.

You can switch courses but you're unlikely to be successful if there is not a link between the two courses.

Yes, however -

Pochsy's idea involved going to a good university (e.g., say UCL) and taking the easiest subject they offer- this will obviously not get you into a respected subject at top univeristy at postgraduate level.

And, from finny's post, it doesn't seem like he'll be able to get into the likes of UCL.

Pochsy wrote:

That's just no good at all.

And Uzique you are right. Most schools over here devalue the undergraduate degree to a huge extent. At my school 1/3 of the students are post-graduate, and that includes the engineers (large faculty) who almost never stay for graduate studies.

So what's no good at all? Our sensible system of only accepting post-graduate study that is relevant and builds on valuable undergraduate study/research, or your system where you have pointlessly devalued a perfectly valid form of qualification simply so that people with enough money can take a Master's of their own pointless choice? I prefer the UK system over the American one, no contest. We have elitism and selective processes, but at least they're based on something other than whimsical fancies of taking completely non-related Master's courses at schools that gauge you on your wallet before your brains.