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It is both fun and educational.
You will meet lots of people and encounter new ideas, and learn to understand and know more about the subject you are interested in. You will also get a fantastic opportunity to prove to yourself and to employers that you can cope with higher-level study, understand complex information, meet deadlines, work independently and in a team, solve problems, as well as speak and write with confidence.
It will give you a chance to study a subject that you enjoy.
Universities offer over 50,000 different courses, on a vast range of subjects and you are sure to find a subject that suits you. You can choose to study something you enjoyed at school or you can try something new and exciting.
It will help you get more interesting and better paid jobs.
Graduates (people with degrees) earn, on average, more money than people without degrees and their incomes are greater as they get older.
Graduates are twice as likely to be employed as non-graduates, and are much more likely to be promoted to managerial and senior positions.
For some jobs and careers you have to have a specific degree. For example; if you want to work as a librarian, doctor, lawyer, pharmacist, architect or surveyor, or in many science-related areas, such as forensic science, you have to study a particular set of courses at university. For other careers - such as accountancy, insurance, publishing, commercial buying or banking - the degree subject does not matter as much because employers are likely to want you just because you have been to university.
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