BBC NEWS | England | Arts degrees ‘reduce earnings’
Posted 12/03/2003 under
So… is this an indication that there is some sort of academic economic rationalism that takes place? I suspect so. I would be interested to know if the same graphs shown below could be used as an indicator of the ‘importance’ factor of degrees to some within the academy.
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Arts degrees ‘reduce earnings’
A degree in an arts subject reduces average earnings to below those of someone who leaves school with just A-levels, a study shows.
Graduates in these subjects - including history and English - could expect to make between 2% and 10% less than those who quit education at 18, researchers at Warwick University found.