"Easy" Masters degree subjects?

[Flingmoo]

I know, I know, you should always study something you're fascinated by and passionate about. But let's say you're fickle and just want another qualification to your name with minimal difficulty... What masters degrees would you consider to be easiest to achieve?

Anything to do with TV and film. Trust me, I did it. it was easier than a levels, and required less work.

If you are going to spend money on a Masters, you should look for one that might be considered worthwhile by employers. I doubt if one in T v would be worth doing.

It'd be worth doing if it came with a placement (as mine did) and set you up for a career in tv (which is what I wanted).

Really though? Don't do a masters for the sake of it. It really shouldn't be like that by the time you've already got a bachelors.

If you want to make yourself more employable a degree in a random field is not going to help.

Not for employability reasons - mainly just curious for opinions! I already studied a "free" masters a but like the one Plonky mentioned but in a different field. To be honest I am considering taking up something new but nothing too challenging as I have a baby. I guess evening classes etc would be more appropriate anyway, so my question is kind of theoretical really.

Step 1) Go to Oxbridge.

Step 2) Do not get sent to prison for 4 years after you graduate.

Step 3) Return, pay them some money, and collect your utterly worthless, vanity project 'MA Cantab' or 'MA Oxon'.

If I were going to do a MA for fun, I'd look for one that's spread over a year, or two years part time, and I'd do something close-ish to my undergrad degree subject so I could relate, and something essay-based so I didn't have to be tied to a specific place.

But, honestly, I would think it's a right waste of 10k or whatever.

To say that an MA Cantab or MA Oxon is worthless is rubbish. It opens doors like nothing else.

I've never heard of them opening any doors.

They don't actually mean anything. Anyone who'd be impressed by the Cantab/Oxon bit would know that. You just get them as a courtesy if you finish the BA/BSc, so it doesn't mean any more than a normal undergraduate degree.

It depends on who you are and how your brain works. I found an MSc in Computing ridiculously easy. My BA is in Psychology/Study of religions. I found it far, far more challenging.

Step 1) Go to Oxbridge.

Step 2) Do not get sent to prison for 4 years after you graduate.

What??!!

Explain please...

I'd choose something you already know a bit about. The whole point of a masters is that you're taking something you're well educated in up to the next level and a it more specialised, is it not? Only some disciplines are worthwhile converting to with no general experience.

If you just want learn something new and keep your brain ticking over, why not try some of the free online MOOCs available from Providers such as FutureLearn or Coursera? They're University level courses, and you can even get certificates to "prove" your learning and add to your CV if you want to.

don't - Oxbridge have this silly, snobby system whereby your BA/BSc/whatever undergraduate degree is converted into an honorary masters seven years after you matriculate, and providing you didn't do something to 'bring the university into disrepute' in the intervening time. Which seems to mean, you stayed out of prison and didn't get conspicuously sacked from a posh job.

So far as I know, it's because back in the day, Oxbridge didn't like the idea of postgrad degrees at all, and so when they started coming in, Oxbridge just said ah, fuck it, we'll give them to everyone. Then, of course, they also started offering proper Masters courses that require actual study, but these have different names (Mphil, MSt, etc.).

If you are a reasonably bright graduate, you would expect to get a job somewhere where they'd check, and realize this thing on your CV called 'MA Cantab' means nothing more than 'BA Cantab', so it doesn't help you get ahead. And lots of people just leave it off, or never go back to get it.

It is, however, obviously the easiest way to get a MA without working hard!

oh I see, now I understand the prison comment, thanks jeanne

Any time. I was being a bit flippant. Sorry, OP.

Land Economy - it's what most of the Oxbridge rowers do when they're too busy training to do any work.