What are Mickey Mouse degrees?

Also is business and marketing one?

Mickey Mouse degrees are degrees that are 'useless' so degrees with no proper or good job prospects at the end. E.g: Media is considered one. I think some may business but it depends what you combine it with (i would recommend combing as business by itself is vague). Marketing is perhaps not the most desired one to combine with but if thats what you are interested in go for it. You are still going to get a job at the end it is employable if that is what you are worried about.

Yeah I’ve got a fairly specific career in mind after it and the career prospects are really good,, is politics a MM degree?

Also is business and marketing one?

There’s no such thing, it’s just used to bash humanities and social science degrees.

I feel like it is a bit mean labelling them Mickey mouse degrees but some degrees really dont have a lot of career prospects other than teaching or poorly paid work so people do need to know what they are getting themselves into. Geography and other humanities/social sciences are still respected.

Also is business and marketing one?

Mickey Mouse degrees are irrelevant degrees people do that do not directly link to an occupation or the mere existence of the degree itself is pointless as the skills can be acquired somewhere else.

Although I know a lot of people will disagree, I think there’s no point doing degrees in drama, art, music, business - because the skills you will acquire from these type of degrees can be easily achieved by training in a company and working for them, you don’t need to do a 3 year degree to learn how to act when you can work for a theatre company and gain tonnes of experience.

Just a thought. Save yourself thousands of pounds and endless student debt from both tuition and maintenance and do a degree apprenticeship or something if a degree is absolutely essential.

I’m doing a degree apprenticeship with a pharma company, I study part time for an Applied Bioscience degree at Kent (delivered online) and work as a scientist in the UK’s largest medicine company. Best choice I ever made, it’s not for people who haven’t decided what they want to do, I knew what I wanted to do so I picked it

Have you watched TV recently? Seen a film lately? Played a video game? Read a book? A magazine? Used the internet and visited literally any website in existence? Listened to any music? Turned on the radio?

Then you've been enjoying the fruits of the labour of actors, artists, graphic designers, writers, musicians, and all other manner of creative arts industry workers. An industry which contributes £13 million pounds to the UK's economy every hour.

And I'll think you would find, had you even a shred of creative ability to even have the tiniest inkling of exploring the sector yourself, that just waltzing up to some hollywood media production, multimillion pound game developer, international magazine, etc, without any relevant qualifications or experience outside of "I think I'm good at this" will get you laughed out of the door very quickly. They expect people applying for those jobs to have mastered the necessary technical skills at the absolute minimum before they apply to the job, and will also expect to see that they've put these to use in a variety of projects to form a portfolio, demo reel, etc, that demonstrates their abilities to apply these technical skills in a creative way fitting a variety of different contexts and client briefs.

Just because you lack the imagination to do something that isn't an entirely prescriptive and predictable career trajectory doesn't mean other people shouldn't or can't.

What a juvenile and idiotic response! You think walking in with a Bachelor in Drama from University of Chichester is suddenly going to make you an attractive employee? Think again. Nobody goes to interviews and says “I think I’m good at this” - they talk about their previous experience and the transferable skills between their last job and the job they want. You must be still a child if you think a university degree is an entry ticket into employment. Degrees mean nothing, everyone can do degrees.

Let’s say you did get a drama degree from the university of Chichester, do you expect to walk in with your diploma and be directly handed roles in a Hollywood film? Your expectations are far from reality if you really think that is going to happen.

At the end of the day these art or drama degrees are worthless without industry experience, so I question the need for a degree in the first place. Please do elaborate on what “technical training” do actors get from university that they can’t get from employment in a theatre company? They are literally reading out what’s given to them on a piece of paper - and over time they will master the skill of acting and act in a way that is more realistic and engaging with the audience.

I feel as though you’re one of the people who did a worthless degree and you don’t like when someone criticises your choices in life.