Your love life at Edinburgh Uni, based on your degree

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, many of us are asking ourselves… what are our love life prospects at the moment? When actually, the real question we should be raising is how might our degree be affecting this situation? For those of you who are wifed already – feel free to keep scrolling. For everyone else, here are your love life prospects based on your degree – sorry physicists, it’s not looking good…  

Biology

With more interest in plants than people, the prospect of love for Biology students is slim. Nonetheless, who’s to say romance is completely off the cards this Valentine’s? You never know, a cheeky heart dissection could become the perfect place to strike up a flirty convo with a fellow biologist…

Business 

You can get ’em but you can’t keep ’em. I hope you don’t mind situationships because based on your degree, a committed relationship just isn’t your style. 

Chemistry  

How it feels when someone asks you how your love life’s going

There’s an irony to this one. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but just because you’re studying Chemistry doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to share some with another human being. 

Economics 

It’s a difficult setting for romance when everyone sits one seat apart in the lectures. That being said, if you’re looking for a finance bro then you’re in the right place. As for the finance bros themselves, a word of advice: stop trying to mansplain inflation. Spoiler alert… it’s not attractive x  

Engineering 

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English Literature 

Me and all my fictional boyfriends

You guys have read so much about romance it feels like a fictional concept in itself. However, this might fuel you with the extra hint of idealist delulu required to find a match in the modern dating climate. Go find the Romeo to your Juliet (or maybe something with a slightly happier ending). 

Geography 

It seems fitting you geographers would be destined for a long distance relationship – use those map reading skills you’ve been practising and get out there and search for your one true love.   

History 

Born for a love as renowned as Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s, forced to endure the confines of the Edinburgh dating pool. And yet somehow you guys manage it more successfully than most – congratulations, you’re the lucky ones.

Languages 

The look of love

For those of you who study a language, your prospects are looking great right now; everyone is head over heels when you can speak a second language. You guys are the heartbreakers amongst us, so please be careful with our feelings this Valentine’s…  

Law

A suggestion to the lawyers out there who are looking for a Valentine: just because you can argue everything doesn’t mean you should. Warning to anyone attempting to date you: you’ve got to be prepared to take even the smallest disagreement to trial.  

Maths

Your search for love is as long as pi – infinite. 

Medicine & Veterinary 

Pucker up pookie xoxo

Your love life can be summed up in one word… incestuous. These are degrees that like to stick to their own circles, a trend that continues on far beyond university. It seems you’ll be doomed to the medic bubble forever…  

Philosophy

You spend too much time thinking about the idea of your love life than actually doing anything to make the concept a reality. If you want to pull, it’s time to retire the Aristotle chat and have a normal conversation for once. Despite what you think, you’re probably not the next Socrates x

Physics 

Doomed. 

Politics

When the low-commitment situationship isn’t feeling so low-commitment anymore…

Your dating pool is immediately narrowed by your strong political leanings – as it should be to be fair. But just because you can talk for Scotland, doesn’t mean that people want to listen however. You’ve definitely got chat, it’s just a question of how good it is…

Psychology 

As a psychologist, your academic knowledge will put you in one of two romantic categories: either your standards are so high that nobody can match them, or you keep repeating the same self-sabotaging habits despite understanding that they’re never going to get you anywhere. This is your time to step out of these patterns and start something new. Come on psychologists, we believe in you x