Despite the ever-growing numbers of law applicants, it looks like a greater proportion of students have been paying attention to the news this year…

Figures from UCAS via The Times

Subjects with lowest growth
	Applications	Change
Finance	5,191	-5.70%
Classical studies	4,938	-1.50%
Economics	44,490	-0.60%
Building	11,966	-0.50%
Law	83,567	6.30%
Physical Geographical Sciences	18,333	6.70%
History	48,528	7.70%
Marketing	16,671	8.00%
Chemical Engineering	9,376	8.00%
History	6,841	8.00%
Ophthalmics	4,231	8.00%
English	58,232	8.60%

At the same time, these are the fastest growing courses…

Subjects with largest growth in applications
	Applications	Change
Fine Art	22,186	129.30%
Design studies	82,521	102.30%
Nursing	94,644	73.70%
Cinematics and Photography	32,331	47.50%
Medical Technology	11,252	46.90%
Zoology	9,103	43.30%
Social Work	52,238	41.30%
Education	25,146	32.10%
Anatomy,Physiology and Pathology	25,904	31.80%
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism	33,455	27.90%
Software Engineering	6,393	27.70%
Information Systems	12,180	26.50%

How would you rather crawl through the economic misery? With an easel and a paintbrush. Or with great technical insight into why it’s so damned hard to get your job in law or finance.