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medical sales representative, adult nurse, social worker,
occupational therapist and further education lecturer. Your
degree can also be useful as a community development worker,
speech and language therapist, dietitian, magazine journalist
and counselor.

• Social science
Social science is very appealing because of the large number of
subjects that come under it. Social science subjects also provide
fascinating insights into everyday life in our communities,
families and workplaces.
You will be engaging in some of the most compelling and
contested questions in contemporary society such as: how do
we communicate with each other? Why do places carry meaning
for people? What are our rights as citizens? Why are we so

fascinated by crime? What shapes our identity and why?
In this course, you will be able to stimulate your curiosity as
well as ask questions and challenge assumptions. You will also
gain greater understanding about yourself and the world we
live in. The areas that you can apply for a job are accountancy,
advertising and marketing, banking and insurance, business
management, economics, local government, management
consultancy, market research, media, politics, psychology, retail
and sales, teaching and lecturing, tourism and town planning.
Science is de?nitely not easy and it requires hard work and
determination. Science also evolves constantly, in a rapid
manner. Therefore, do not expect a laid-back life, especially
if you are looking to enter the research ?eld. You should also
possess a curious and inquisitive mind as there will be a lot of
thinking needed and challenges faced as new things pop up.

QS World University Rankings by Subject (2012)
Biological Sciences

Physics

QS
Rank School Name

QS
Rank School Name

01 Harvard University

01 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

02 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

02 Harvard University

03 University of Cambridge

03 Stanford University

04 Stanford University

04 University of Oxford

05 University of Oxford

05 University of Cambridge

06 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

06 Princeton University

07 Yale University

07 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

08 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

08 University of Chicago

09 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

09 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

11 Cornell University

11 Columbia University

12 Imperial College London

12 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

13 Columbia University

13 Imperial College London

14 Princeton University

14 The University of Tokyo

15 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

15 Cornell University

16 University of California, San Francisco

16 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

17 The University of Tokyo

17 Yale University

18 Kyoto University

18 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

19 University of Pennsylvania

19 University of Edinburgh

20 Johns Hopkins University

20 The University of Melbourne

21 University of Chicago

21 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

22 Osaka University

22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

23 University of Toronto

23 UCL (University College London)

24 The University of Melbourne

24 University of British Columbia

25 Duke University

25 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Note: QS World University Rankings by Subject - Biological Sciences
is placed under the Life Sciences & Medicine category.

Note: QS World University Rankings by Subject - Physics
is placed under the Natural Sciences category.

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