everyone’s got a degree, it’s hardly as valuable as it once was – so maybe it’s time to rethink that old Princeton logic. If you’re looking for credentials that will really make you pop on the job market, luckily there are tons of bizarrely specific programs that most people would never dream of pursuing.

The work these degrees designate is far from conventional, and the appeal of these subjects certainly goes against the growing trend towards “professionalization” in the workforce, where just about every task requires some kind of special license to carry out. Chalk it up to 21st century capitalization of everything. But let’s suspend our cynical ideas of education for a moment and appreciate how these fifteen kooky programs might pave the future economy.


15. The Beatles

At Liverpool Hope University, a day in the life of an MA Beatles student explores topics like the 60s music industry and the fab four’s sound production; after 48 weeks on this long and winding road, they present a final dissertation. Academics have been studying John, Paul, George and Ringo for going on 30 years, and MAs and PhDs in the topic have gained enough interest to constitute full programs at prestigious schools like London University.

14. Chicken Science

“Chicken” has been a popular field for a long time in agricultural North America. From Saskatchewan to Texas, graduate poultry science programs require a rigorous background to pursue research in nutrition, physiology, genetics, and farm management, all under the subject of arguably the most indispensable (and poorly treated) animalian resource, the chicken.

13. Puppetry

Some people aspire to be the ones pulling all the strings – others will keep busy with puppet making, scriptwriting and advanced shadow theatre courses at the University of Connecticut’s MA in puppetry. This isn’t a side-note on the theatre studies course calendar; UConn has been offering the program for five decades, ever since their late master puppeteer Frank W. Ballard conceived it in 1964. As they say, live entertainment, in all its forms, will never be in short demand.

what are you smoking?

12. Nannying

If you idolized Marry Poppins growing up, know this: it’s not enough to be compassionate, safe, a good role model or irresistibly British to meet the booming nanny demand of the 21st century. The Professional Nanny Program at Kentucky’s Sullivan University takes 12 months to teach you the Proper Way to clean up and care for snotty youngsters. Learn that baby care, cooking, event planning and indispensable CPR and First Aid.

Nastydroid:
what are you smoking?

It's believable, the Western world is a place of distinct and sometimes disturbing career opportunities.

11. Decisions

For a lowly human, decision-making seems simple: Hungry — eat. But if we had to be conscious of the complex biology underlying everything we do, we’d probably be inclined to sit down and do nothing. In the same way, when the new dominant organism on the planet, the bureaucracy-corporation, wants to make a simple choice like acquire chairs for the board room, it takes a tremendous amount of work from its subordinate nodes: we working professionals. Enter Indiana University’s Decision Sciences program, preparing students for the infinitely complex task of making businesses do things and stuff.

10. Parapsychology

The University of Edinburgh offers the Ouija board of educations, a 3-year doctorate in the psychology of the paranormal. Perform intensive research into people’s claims of paranormal abilities, and try, if you dare, to explain them beyond “they are very confused”.

9. Cannabis Cultivation 

This is not a program but an entire college — a Cannabis College — operating out of Oakland, California (where else?). Oaksterdam University teaches dispensary management, “budtending”, cannabis law, cannabis cooking, cannabis economics and pretty much every other useful study prefixed by cannabis. With the legalization movement in the United States, enrolling might just be most useful career investment you’ll make.

8. Comedy

Who says you can’t learn to be funny? Toronto’s Humber College gives aspiring humour scientists a chance to hone their stand-up, improv, scriptwriting and sketch comedy while learning about the commercial side of the arts and entertainment industry. Presumably, you won’t be presenting a thesis and defending it to an academic committee; you’ll take stage in Humber’s fully equipped comedy cabaret, and strike down academic hecklers.

Food engineering

Omo... Course dey o

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By the way, I studied Nairalanding for B.Sc, got a M.Sc in Romancelanding and currently studying Space-Booking for PHd.

See, some of my coursemates are above me

Ok

Crazy Courses.

joblessness

its a course must pple study in the University of Life, Nigeria.


some never graduate.
some don get phD
i am in my final year sha.. by God's grace

Lmao

Okies

Na wa oooooo . Oyinbos and their mumu sense

Oh boy ehn? Cultivating cannabis? Students go just dey smoke am dey go for class. When lecturer enter he go just distribute weed to the students make lecture start

okay

tobechi74:
Food engineering

you must be living in a cave, food engineers work in food processing companies, biscuits, juice, tomato anything, plus yeah, they are engineers registrable with COREN

These courses sound funny... but quite interesting..
Have you ever made mistakes?

nairamaverick:
okay

C ur lyf

what about Ebolacology

I even heard that they study 'beckham' in one of these uk schools...

Bsc in Cure for Andyblaze

Good Morning Nigerians

what of also...
irrigation engineering...
found dah D.O.P.E course in Jamb's brochure..

Nawa ooo. Funny courses.

I appreciate I read economics.

So damn proud of it.