Question: What are the advantages/disadvantages of doing a science degree?

Duncan McNicholl answered on 17 Nov 2017:

I’m going to start with the disadvantages, because they’re exactly the same as the disadvantages of doing any degree, or apprenticeship, or anything that involves learning like that: it’s hard work. Learning how to be a scientist, or for that matter a doctor or a lawyer or a plumber or a physiotherapist or a psychotherapist or a joiner or an electrician or a politician or a chimneysweep takes a lot of time, and you have to be working the whole time to make sure that you understand as much as you can as well as you can, or you won’t get there.
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The advantages of a science degree are mostly the things that it tells people you can do: use numbers and think critically about things and be sensible around potentially dangerous things, and work hard and finish things when you start them. It also means you know a bunch of stuff about science, but most people with science degrees don’t use most of the science they learn in their job.