Earn Beatles Masters Degree In Liverpool

England's Liverpool Hope University is offering a master of arts degree in The Beatles.

The 7,000-student school in the legendary '60s band's hometown is offering a new course called "The Beatles, Popular Music And Society" that consists of four 12-week taught modules and a dissertation. It can be studied either full- or part-time.

"There have been over 8,000 books about The Beatles, but there has never been serious academic study, and that is what we are going to address," says the university's popular music senior lecturer, Mike Brocken.

"Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool is the right place to study The Beatles. This MA is expected to attract a great deal of attention not just locally but nationally, and we have already had enquiries from abroad, particularly the United States.

"'The Beatles, Popular Music And Society' marks a seminal advance in popular music studies. For the first time in the U.K. and possibly the world, a postgraduate-taught course is offered to research into The Beatles, the city from which they emerged, the contexts of the 1960s, technology, sound and songwriting, and the industries that have set up in their wake to capitalize on tourism in the city of Liverpool."

While this sounds like a fun and interesting course, students will no doubt spend many "A Hard Day's Night" studying on the "Long And Winding Road" to getting their degree.