That all depends what career you're embarking on really. To guarantee a job in the games industry - study Physics or Maths. Developers are crying out for people with proper quals in those subjects, and if you study at any of the well-known Universities: Oxbridge, St Andrews, Durham UCL etc then all the better.

If you want to do Graphics Design then I wish you luck but there's a lot of competition... :)

I did a degree in Multimedia Studies, its was a cop out at the time as i was more interested in just going to uni, and I hoped that a job in the computer gaming industry would just follow. The lack of interest from the computer gaming industry in university undergrads/leavers also has to change if things are to improve.

More apprenticeships are necessary to educate students about the skillsets required to obtain work in this industry. As it happens, I left to work in London for a management company, and got my contacts in the game industry at an E3 conference 4 years ago. I did a Masters in Applied Physics and used my contacts to get a job before my postgrad studies had finished.

Since then I've worked in New York, Edinburgh, Lincoln and Vancouver(should be a hint) and our company has gone from strength to strength. But no matter how much whinging Eidos do, without a bit of give and take from the gaming industry also, the relevant skills will not be taught by the Universities as they do not have enough insight past the iron curtain.