>>77894925As a guy with a STEM bachelor degree working in a factory*, I can assure you degrees mean nothing. Plenty of retards get their degrees and are still retarded, others get them and are ok just regurgitating info but struggle with novel situations, etc.
*Don't bother with STEM if you're from the UK and not looking into engineering, tech or some finance work, all the jobs pay shit and all of them want multiple years experience after the degree for a job that pays around minimum wage, the employers don't advertise salaries and if you go the PhD route you're merely delaying the problem, most of them won't get a job related to their degree, but they will gain additional debt, the title of doctor, and be around the same level as guys who dropped out earlier. Again the STEM job market in the UK is shit, I don't reccommend it.