On 10/01/2011 14:22, Recliner wrote:
The article cites the case of someone who started on a Chemistry degree,
and then switched to a much more useful brewing-and-distilling course,
which led directly to a good job.

One of my former students of chemical engineering walked straight into a
good job with Guinness on graduation, but he has an advantage over a
graduate who studied brewing and distilling in that he could also do a
lot of other jobs in the other process industries.

In contrast, many university chemistry courses are not focussed on the
real world applications of chemistry, and as a consequence a PhD is
often needed to get a professional-level job in chemistry.
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