Universities offer students ‘dead-end’ degrees on e-sports and comics

telegraph.co.uk

3 points·theriddlr··7 comments

Horse management is a real degree at Oneonta University in Upstate NY. Horses are a significant industry and a lot of people make a living at it.

My wife studied Animal Science at the Ag School at Cornell and now she runs a riding academy, at least one of her students moved on to studying horse management at Oneonta. I wouldn't knock it.

Do people learn any skills which will provide useful at the races while betting?

Not as much as if you studied stats or finance. See https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Beat-Racetrack-William-Ziemba/dp/1... for a system that really works.

> A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, "What do I get by learning these things?" So Euclid called a slave and said "Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns."

https://archive.li/HgmAs

> Wrexham Glyndwr University offered a course on “comics” with a foundation year, which invites those with a “flair for storytelling” and “printmaking, bookbinding, 3D materials, life drawing” to apply.

This article is reaching for negativity.

It's also badmouthing "game design" which is a serious degree at Ithaca College and something you can do for a career.

For that matter Ithaca College trains people in "sports management" which is similarly a real career. I know a young women who was born missing a hand who is a serious athlete nonetheless and not only playes in college but studies ways to help disabled people participate in sports which is one of the best things you can be doing I think.

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