> Because I guarantee that the "vast majority of people with degrees" in the professions I described and many more, will use the knowledge acquired during their

> Because I guarantee that the "vast majority of people with degrees" in the professions I described and many more, will use the knowledge acquired during their degree in their jobs. I agree with this, but think the jobs that use degrees are a small minority. Maybe 20%? > I'm not sure what physics or maths grad doesn't use the math he was taught/practiced/and picked up during his tutoring for the degree. I'm a software engineer atm and while I have done some gnarly stuff with directed graphs, I don't think I've used any of my uni maths in my career. A friend of mine went to be an actuary, same thing, A-level maths was used but nothing beyond that. Catastrophe modeller? Same. Civil servant? Same. Hedge fund analyst? Same. Very very few jobs actually require graduate level maths.