Jarus:


Shoot me an email: jarushub@gmail.com

thanks I've done that.

Abuklaw:
You've spoken well bro suraj. I at times enlighten people on how they can build career that is clearly distinct from what they have in their first degree. ICT has made everything easy, it is not a must to be computer science graduate before venturing into any area of it. likewise do one need not to study business administration or related courses before bagging MBA after first degree. We are in the informational age not the industrial age. so wise up dudes.

pick CCNA,ORACLE,COMPTIA and others and stand a chance of working with multinational companies irrespective of what you studied in your first degree.

@ CCNA,ORACLE,COMPTIA. Pls can I register and study the 3 together at the same time? I've been looking for what to do on computer that will boost my computer knowledge and I'll find it interesting

shakol91:
@ CCNA,ORACLE,COMPTIA. Pls can I register and study the 3 together at the same time? I've been looking for what to do on computer that will boost my computer knowledge and I'll find it interesting

you can check online or survey you environment for credible centers to train for the aforementioned courses. You can start one after the other.

Jarus:

First degree, most times, is just to broaden the student’s horizon, to improve his cognitive processes. It hardly determines what one goes on to be in life.

you dont except a civil engineer to be performing surgery.

Odunharry:
If this thread doesnt hit frontpage,Let APC lose next year Presidential election

Odunharry:
If this thread doesnt hit frontpage,Let APC lose next year Presidential election

rioemmanuel:
Mr jarus,nice article up there.
Let me also use this medium to ask you this question that has been disturbing me for some time now.
Career wise,which do you think is the best,computer science or elect engineering.

Don't you know what you want to become in life?

Jarus:


Aig Imhoukhude studied Law. He ended up a Bank CEO (Access Bank).

I have friends that studied Agric, Chemistry, Botany etc that are accomplished accountants today.

Well, it seems getting into the financial sector for graduates of non-financial courses is easier than the other way round.

Sijioke:
you dont except a civil engineer to be performing surgery.

I mentioned those exceptions in the earlier part of the article.

Although a civil engineer or medical doctor can end up being a banker.

Pls fellow nairalanders, how marketable is the course NUTRITION AND DIETICS?

My kid bro wanted to study medicine but ended up finding himself in biochemistry. And to be honest with you, I don't want him to study BCM cause is not really marketable in Nigeria. I prefer Engineering. I have been persuading him to do change of course to Engineering. I guess I will leave him to finish with BCM and switch to Engineering for masters.

Oga Jarus, doing it usually as always. Good one there. Undergraduates keep disturbing themselves for things not really worth the stress. In Nigerian economy, one can be almost anything very far from what he/she studied as first degree. Even a man who studied Zoology which by status quo should be in the zoo officiating lions, elephants and the likes is the one on the highest throne of Nigeria today. To me, even if i didnt get admission on a high profile course, i would've been more concerned about my graduating grade than the course of study considering the context of Nigeria.

I don't get why everybody seem to be ending up in the banking sector in spite their course of study?

Fkhalifa:
I don't get why everybody seem to be ending up in the banking sector in spite their course of study?

simple, because you don't really need a first class/2-1 grade to qualify. Another thing is, most banks pay well.

I am agree with what you wrote

freshdude:
My kid bro wanted to study medicine but ended up finding himself in biochemistry. And to be honest with you, I don't want him to study BCM cause is not really marketable in Nigeria. I prefer Engineering. I have been persuading him to do change of course to Engineering. I guess I will leave him to finish with BCM and switch to Engineering for masters.

Have you asked yourself if engineering is really marketable in Nigeria?

Well, not all Engineers attended a University education, with Civil, Petroleum and Chemical Engineering being an exception.

By the way, he wanted Medicine and ended up in BCM and you want him to switch to Engineering which is entirely different from Medicine and BCM. Can he cope? Hmm

RedBenson:
Oga Jarus, doing it usually as always. Good one there. Undergraduates keep disturbing themselves for things not really worth the stress. In Nigerian economy, one can be almost anything very far from what he/she studied as first degree. Even a man who studied Zoology which by status quo should be in the zoo officiating lions, elephants and the likes is the one on the highest throne of Nigeria today. To me, even if i didnt get admission on a high profile course, [size=30pt]i would've been more concerned about my graduating grade than the course of study considering the context of Nigeria.[/size]

Sadly, this is what people fail to understand.

I'm curious how marketable is mechanical engineering

A secondary school education is to people to different disciplines and it is assumed that after secondary school, people should have made up their mind on what field they want to make a career. By field i mean IT, Medicine etc. They mustn't have made up their mind whether they want to become programmers in specific. They should just have a background knowledge of the IT industry and then after their BSC they can now specialize in either streamlining their career path by doing a masters program or doing professional courses. But i think the situation in Nigeria is somewhat peculiar. It's an aberration for someone to just accept any course of study just because they want to gain admission. These are the people who go to school to study botany and find themselves working in a bank, not taking care of the plants in front of the bank but working at the counter. It is not only an aberration but also responsible for the standstill situation of most sectors in Nigeria.

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tolutweety:


If this thread hits frontpage, then I schooled in france !

now you schooled in France!

they all want to be in school, so dem go yab their mate learning trade so in that casethey opt for anything.

Odunharry:
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Very true..nice write up..wen i gained addmision 2 study pol sci[dat was after wasting 1year at home coz i wasn't given economic]dad was lyk never pol sci ain't markertable..u going 2 wait another year til u get economics mumcy sat me down and was lyk don't mind dat man jawe..read hard and get ur 1st class and watch miracles happen..so ur 1st degree don't determine how far u gonna go in life hard work do

@oga jarus...is civil engrin a good course as at nw

Jarus:
I wrote this for 10MinutesWith, a UK-based career and education platform.

http://www.10minuteswith.com/blog/does-undergraduate-course-study-really-matter

As an African blogger with focus on education and career mentoring, one common question I get from student readers from time to time is, “How marketable is my course of study?” This is surprising given the fact that a student is expected to know the marketability of his course of study before opting for it in the first place. But anyone that is familiar with the educational system of African countries, especially Nigeria, will know that many students are more bothered about getting admission into University than the relevance of the course of study that they are pursuing.

It is common in Nigeria for a student to apply for a certain course, say Economics, but due to the inability to meet the cut-off score for admission into the chosen department, he is offered admission to study a less competitive course, say Sociology. The implication of this is that someone that has primary interest in one course will find himself being forced, so to speak, to study another course because that was the course “given” to him by the University he applied to.

Although a few undergraduates will stand their ground and do not mind spending another year at home to retake the entrance examinations, many students take the offered courses because they are not confident that they will get admitted into their desired department even after retaking the entrance examination. The latter set of students are the ones that come to the internet to ask for the marketability of the courses of study offered to them.

But does course of study at undergraduate level really matter? The truth is, except for highly specialised professions like Medicine, Engineering et cetera, you can become almost anything without having your first degree in that line. Even for Engineering, many postgraduate schools allow you to do your Masters in engineering courses with a related Science first degree.

In some cases, you don’t even need a second degree in a specific career line before you become a professional in that industry, all you need to do is to gather practical experience or run some courses in the desired field.

The current president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is my favorite example. The Korean-American studied Medicine at Harvard Medical School for his first degree. He now heads a Financial Institution. There are many top investment bankers that studied courses that are far off from Finance or Banking. Even Christine Lagarde, the current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), another financial and economic institution, studied, not economics, not Finance, but Law, for her first degree. She is now a Finance guru.

A good number of the best accountants around the world studied Economics. In fact, I don’t usually advise my mentees to study Accounting. All you need to do to become an Accountant is to write relevant accounting professional examinations like that of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) or other recognised accounting professional exams of the local country. I have friends who studied courses as far off as Agriculture but are now working as Accountants because they wrote and passed the qualifying exams of a relevant accounting body.

First degree, most times, is just to broaden the student’s horizon, to improve his cognitive processes. It hardly determines what one goes on to be in life. This is why I normally advise young students to make the best of whatever courses they are studying and not to be demotivated by their inability to get the course of their desired study.

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a graduate of agricultural engineering
a professional in safety
a guitarist
an executive assistant


i still ask myself when all these would converge to define me..

but in naija.. bros.. we jam everything

if u focus on one... u would be most likely, poor but happy.