DT News - UK - Dentistry and medicine degrees deliver best value for money, survey finds

Dental Tribune UK

Tue. 25 September 2018

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LONDON, UK: Obtaining a university degree in the UK can be a costly experience. Currently, higher education institutions in England can charge home student fees of up to £9,250 per year for undergraduate degree programmes. It is somewhat comforting, then, to see that a recent survey has found that dentistry and medicine are perceived by their students to deliver the best value for money.

A recent survey conducted by YouGov found that 62 per cent of responding students believe that “the standard of education and the wages graduates earn are not enough to warrant the cost of English/Welsh university degrees”, with only 13 per cent agreeing that they are worth the cost. To find out more, The Knowledge Academy, a provider of online training courses, analysed the 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) to find out which university subjects are perceived by students to have the best value for money.

HEPI’s survey showed that 62 per cent of students studying dentistry and medicine rated their programme’s value for money as either ‘good or very good’. This was followed by 56 per cent of those studying veterinary sciences and agriculture, while only 28 per cent of those studying business and administrative studies felt that their programme possessed good value for money.

Overall, 38 per cent of students obtained ‘good or very good’ value from their university course of choice. Though this is down from 53 per cent in 2012, it represents a 3 per cent improvement upon 2017’s survey.

“It’s interesting to see from the point of students if their chosen university course is actually giving them value for money or not at the increased tuition fee rates,” said Joseph Scott, a spokesperson for The Knowledge Academy.

“This research certainly shows that there are degree disciplines which are giving undergraduates who are studying them more for their money than others. But within the context of ‘value’, it is important to know that students tend to factor in teaching quality, course content, lecturer contact hours and availability of learning resources into their assessment.”

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