Which degree is most likely to get you a 2:1?

You go to uni, you get a 2:1, you get a job and move to Clapham: the university life cycle is simple enough.

Yet, year on year, distraught students pick up their results only to graduate with a Desmond – they flee from their awards ceremony in to the abyss of probable unemployment, disappointment following them as they tell you “I’d have got a 2:1 if I’d done Philosophy, too!” Would they?

The Higher Education Statistics Agency have released data showing just how likely you are to pick up that coveted 2:1, and whether you really should have opted for Philosophy after all.

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The statistics make for interesting reading: For once, the humanities top a table, with 83.5 per cent historical and philosophical studies students picking up either a first or a 2:1, closely followed by language students who boast an 83.2 per cent conversion rate.

On the other end of the spectrum, combined honours students are most likely to receive the dreaded Desmund, with just over half of students managing to pick up a 2:1 or better.

Hard-hitters in the employability sector such as medicine, law and engineering, find themselves uncharacteristically mid-table, sporting scores of 69.4, 70.6 and 72.7 per cent respectively.

Long live humanities.