Originally Posted by Unregistered

Those who claim that Social Sciences degrees are toilet paper are clearly ignorant. If it is so useless, the government would not allow the universities to have those degrees. Not to mention, the FASS in NUS is the largest faculty and houses about 1700 students. While it is true that Social Sciences are general degrees and most degrees would need a graduate level (Masters) in order to work specifically in the field, graduating with just an honors is sufficient for a myriad of jobs in various ministries. A note though that ministries tend to select the cream of the crop, and you must at least have a second upper to get a decent salary. However, Second lower and below will still get jobs, albeit at lesser known agencies.

So all in all, a Social Science degree is not the most pragmatic, but you will still get jobs. Since it is general in nature, expect your job to have a huge variety unlike technical skill based jobs. If reading and writing is your passion, you should consider Social Sciences. To venture into Social Science research, you should have a strong statistical grounding, and statistics are different from mathematics. Statistics is about understanding data and samples, while maths is about applying and manipulating formula. Most of the time in statistics, you are not required to compute the formula. Rather, you have to be able to understand the conception of the formula and how to apply it because most of the time, you would be using computer software like SPSS.