If you take history single honours course, you will have electives in the first two years.
Schedules A-Q are outside courses, 40 credits is a year long course, 20 credits is a semester long course.
Yeah I checked the course offerings at Edinburgh. I’m gonna take as many business/finance courses as possible for my elective classes. Would you guys reccemend working part time during the school year or only interning during the summer?
I am not having my kid not work the first semester until she gets a feel for the workload.
I believe that your elective classes should be taken in the social sciences, not Business. Unlike in the us, electives aren’t totally free, you typically pick from a list of authorized classes.
In any case your internships will NOT cone from these electives but from your rank and your ability to get a 2:1 or First. Those qualifications indicate someone who can learn technical skills in the spot and works hard and smart.
I see. Perhaps electives in international relations or economics would work?
You will be allowed to take any electives you want, provided they fit in your schedule with compulsory courses. See the link I provided earlier.
^ I stand corrected in that Single Honours History theoretically does let you take anything, even art, engineering, or divinity, so potentially business.
However I want to emphasize that any internship you get will NOT come from these electives but from your results/rank. So only take classes you’re interested in and/or that will complement your degree.
This, with the addition of how you do in the application process. For the big names (finance, consulting, law) the process is pretty much the same: you complete an application; if you make it through that cut you are sent a link for an online verbal test and an online (calculation-based) math test. If you make it through those levels there is often an interactive online test. These vary by sector, but for the consultancies you are emailed “client profiles” to read ahead of time (you have a 3 day window), but once you start there is a 60 minute timer running in the upper corner of your screen, and a flurry of emails start coming in for you to ‘respond’ to- a ‘client’ querying a bill, a ‘manager’ asking for an assessment of something about the ‘client’, etc. It’s very intense, but is actually pretty relevant to the kinds of tasks you would be doing in the job, while also testing speed of thought, writing ability, common sense, appropriateness of response, etc. If you make it past the practical test you are invited to an interview day that usually starts with group projects with other interviewees (who almost all come from one of a half dozen peer universities*), runs through the day and then, last thing, your formal interview (there is a suspicion among applicants that having it be last, when everybody is worn out from the day, is deliberate- coping well when you are tired being a directly relevant ability for most of these jobs!).
It’s a rigorous process, but if you make it through, not only are you reasonably well paid (the pay is similar to the pay rate of a new hire), but your odds of an offer of a permanent position after you graduate are very high.
*note that a disproportionate number come from Oxford or Cambridge, neither of which offers a Business, Finance or Accountancy course at all- the nearest they have is Economics and Management (Ox) or Management Studies (Cam) (and of course Econ).
^ Management’s essentially the same as Business, though. They cover the same subjects.
True, but it’s a small course (at Oxford it’s ~85 places out of ~3200 first year students)- a small fraction of the number of students who wind up at the big name companies.