EXPOSED: 20 University Degrees With Worst And Best Employment Prospects In Nigeria

Choosing the best career path to follow in life begins from the choice of course we make right from when we start prospecting to become fresher at universities or polytechnics; and the better choices we make, the better chances we have to advance faster in life.

Moreover, with the way global economy is fluctuating; one needs to be more careful with making choice of course to study at the higher institution level, since it has now become so obvious that certain courses or profession now have lesser opportunities of employment after graduation.

This short piece is not intended to belittle or ridicule any profession or course of study, but it is meant to guide young people who are still in the position of making the right choice before it becomes too late; so if you have a brother or a sister who is still writing or planning to write university entrance exam, I would suggest that you print this article out and give him or her as a professional guide.

In case you are wondering how we arrived at this conclusion? Maybe you need to pay more attention to job openings being advertised on media platforms and daily newspapers to know more.

This does not also mean that individuals who studied courses on our worst employment opportunities category will never make it in life, or that they will be jobless…nope….we are only looking at the number of opportunities based on merit and not based on who-knows-who.

Below are the list, read with a clear mind:

UNIVERSITY COURSES WITH WORST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN NIGERIA

1. Religious Studies
2. Political Science: you don’t need to study political science to become a politician or to analyze politics today.
3. Music: most musical artistes today didn’t even know what’s music…
4. Zoology
5. Primary Education
6. French
7. Sport
8. Sociology
9. Counseling Psychology
10. Geography
11. Language
12. Library and Information Science
13. Fine Art
14. Philosophy
15. Social Studies
16. Mass Communication
17. Botany
18. Physical Education
19. Theatre Art (you don’t need to study theatre art to perform on stage nowadays)
20. Marketing: (nowadays, any discipline can do marketing perfectly…and even engineering firms now prefer to use engineering graduates as their professional marketers for easy understanding of the products being marketed, and it is more efficient)

UNIVERSITY COURSES WITH BEST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN NIGERIA

1. Medicine/Nursing

2. Civil Engineering/Architecture
2. Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
3. Accounting/Economics
4. Information Management Technology (with good practical ability)
5. Business & Administrative Studies.
6. Geology
7. Computer Science/IT
8. Chemical Engineering
9. Maths Education
10. Health Education
11. Food Science and Technology
12. Quantity Surveyor
13. Graphics Art.
14. Safety Engineering
15. Welding
16. Pharmacy
17. Physics
18. Human Resources Management
19. Law
20. Chemistry