University

[fleabitten]

I'm considering applying for university in September for entry in 2012. I love history and would like to continue studying it but had a thought the other day that it Equine Business Management might tickle my fancy and I could do History and EBM jointly.

I suppose the business element will be useful even if i dont use it in a horsey capacity but if i ever decide to go down the horse career path (even just on the side) this would be useful perhaps. I did business studies for GCSE and i found it very boring so maybe EBM wouldnt be such a good idea?

Other equine courses include sciencey ones (nah), behaviour (nah) and coaching (nah). (I think I should just accept that I dont have the ability or confidence to teach horse riding!)

Im not really sure that deciding on these two subjects will really get me anywhere - they are sort of completely unrelated!

I would consider Politics but not pure Politics - from what I have seen so far, it seems to have a better graduate job prospect than pure History.

Maybe an administrative type course would be better? I see theres a Public Administration course which would probably be useful?

Anyway, I suppose the question im looking an answer for is - do you think History and Equine Business Management would be a good choice? I know that it will limit the amount of places that I could go to which may affect the standard of teaching on the History course, if that makes sense

Also, do you think Politics or Administration are good ideas for subjects to choose?

I really dont know how to start doing this research into Uni but i think mostly every uni in the UK does history and i dont really care where I go (including republic of Ireland) so...i have a bit of a dilemma!

Any advice much appreciated

[suzii]

I've been thinking about my career after school.. Am going into the 6th form in september and would love to go on to study horses after that. Think my school would see it as a waste though - they like lots of people to go to english at oxford (surprise surprise!) I also love music but think that doing it at uni might take the fun out of it. Why not do behavior? I think it'd be really worthwhile. But you might be right that business management may be useful in other areas. Would do you want to do as a job? Or is the problem that you don't know what to do?

[fleabitten]

im not really interested in behaviour/psychology - either humans or horses! I did psychology for a month at AS level and hated it. I was thinking business management as if i ever did live the dream (livery yard/riding school) then it would give me knowledge for doing that. At the moment, i dont think i will have a career in horses but you never know what the future may hold and i suppose any degree is thought of as good so it might as well be something enjoyable (equine) and useful (business).

As for the history side of things, i just want to learn more about history!

[suzii]

Well if you are unsure of what to do I would go for something you know you are going to enjoy - you can always do horsey qualifications outside of university later in life if thats what you want to do. But doing history with EBM sounds like you can get the best of both worlds?

[spotti]

Flea - behaviour is fab BUT there are seriously no jobs out there (as I've found out AFTER I've finished my behaviour degree ). I think you have to think that way though (i.e. be interested in the 'whys' of behaviour) otherwise it might be quite difficult. If you're not fussed then maybe the EBM would be a good option? Like Suzii said, best of both worlds then...you could also use the business side for something completely un-horse-related later on in life

[fleabitten]

Thanks for the advice guys - lots to think about!