Hey. I believe that Mickey Mouse degrees do exist but degrees that people believe are MM degrees I don’t agree with. Non Mickey Mouse degrees:
Bio
Chem
Physics
Maths
Geography
History
English literature
Mfl
Anything health related like nursing, optometry or medicine
Economics
Psychology
Sociology
Engineering courses
Architecture
Music
Arts (Although I think that any art student that wants to apply to uni are already very creative and bursting with ideas and I somewhat believe that they don’t require going to university, my aunt has said that uni drained her ideas and made art really boring and dreadful, but then again it’s the students choice)
Law
Philosophy
Social work
Computing
These are the degrees I can think of from the top of my head so if there’s more that aren’t MM degrees, sorry and I know that they aren’t I just can’t remember them.
What MM degrees are is what I think that you don’t get skills from and degrees that don’t increase salary and make you largely in debt and make you suffer. I do also think that universities shouldn’t accept students with lower than CCC although this is controversial (extenuating circumstances are another story). Things like music can be deeply complicated with the theory. I rather like to think that business and management degrees can be used as a masters rather than an undergraduate degree.
With degrees like English lit or geography, students can go into further research to get a phd OR they can enter jobs that require those skills such as politics, journalism, business and even teaching. So that’s why it’s a great degree. Languages help you with teaching and let’s you enter businesses although I also think that the language should be studied with something else for example economics although I do believe if someone wants to do an mfl, they can attend classes that don’t require £9000+ a year, but yet again, it’s the students choice.
Degrees like Egyptology shouldn’t exist, it’s just history that is specialised in the Egyptians and same again with American studies. It’s history and anthropology that’s specialised in America. There are a few more which I don’t see the point of either but again, it’s not the top of my head.
Also I think that if a student does a psychology degree and enters retail, then it can be called a MM degree as the student isn’t using the skills learnt, perhaps they don’t want to continue with their degree or because the job markets are too saturated (which then it isn’t their fault)
It might seem controversial but what do you think?
Ps- I think that polytechnics should be brought back