Meat and drink to engineers
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If you want a degree in engineering, get ready to fork out a staggering £12,165 a year - £36,495 over the course of a three-year degree, and this doesn't even include rent or tuition fees.
Researchers have evidently discovered that those on engineering degrees will spend £814.56 on books and equipment for their course every year.
But aspiring engineers are, it seems, the architects of their own financial downfall - the biggest chunk of their degree costs goes on nights out with £218.28 shelled out every week, a total of more than £11,350 a year, on drink and eating out.
Academic Bookseller Blackwell’s Phill Jamieson said the research was conducted to understand the different economics attached to students’ chosen courses and its relationship to their required book lists.
''It appears with a combination of university materials including books combined with the money spent on having an active social life, engineering is the most costly course,” he said.
However, unlike media students who spend just 18 hours and 46 minutes a week studying, engineering students do find time away from boozing to spend more hours buried in their books than those doing other degrees.
Here’s the full pecking order:
1.Engineering - £36,495.36
2.Physiotherapy - £27,616.68
3.Politics - £23,773.44
4.Maths and accountancy - £19,375.32
5.Geography - £19,269.72
6.IT and Computing - £19,163.52
7.Sport - £18,883.08
8.History - £17,226.12
9.Law - £17,149.20
10.Business & Marketing - £14,674.80
11.Art and Design - £14,447.88
12.Languages - £14,054.16
13.Media Studies - £14,043.60
14.Drama - £13,741.68
15.Medicine - £12,984.72
16.Healthcare - £10,328.16
17.Music - £10,218.24
18.Education - £9,563.76
19.Science and technology - £8,822.76
20.Sociology - £8,553.96
