If you are only going to complete a degree to...
A) look good an a CV and
B) become more attractive to an airline employer
...then don't bother. Start flying as soon as possible because you will need all the money you can get to repay all your forthcoming training bills.
It currently seems, (much to my despair,) that all you have to do is be rich enough to pay for a Type Rating after your CPL/IR?MCC...
It is becoming more and more irrelevant what you did in a previous life which is so so wrong IMHO.