For this weekend, I wanted to write an article on treating a degree as an investment just like a portfolio of stock and bonds. Fortunately for everyone, I was also ordering my thosai while thinking about this idea so I thought I could write an article on choosing degrees and eating thosai. Let's start with some fundamentals. Degrees serve two purposes : a) Equipping you with the skills to take on the modern workplace. Skills are a degree's secondary purpose, in spite of what a minister tells you. If degrees genuinely equip someone with actual skills, then the university ranking would not be important when considering a new hire, management consulting firms would not fixate on just the Ivy League and Oxbridge qualifications. In practice, there is simply too much domain knowledge that needs to be absorbed on the job before you can become a useful member of your company. ......