QOTD #00026: “If you could have an advanced degree right now, what would it be? What would you do with it?”

College degrees should align with a person's passions, interests, and career goals. The trouble is, we often don’t recognize our true calling until we’re out of school. If you could graduate with credentials in any field right now, what college degree would you want?
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Reeana M's answer
Reeana M
Springfield, NY
Animation degree to share my creativity.
“If I could have an advanced degree right now, I would probably want something in, like, animation or something with that has to do with the arts. Um, I love creating stuff, I love art and I love to be creative, so I would like to create, like, my own TV show or movie. That would be something that I would aspire [to].”
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Ethan C's answer
Ethan C
Cedar City, UT
Transportation engineering degree - on track.
“Uh, if I could have an advanced degree, it would be the one I'm currently pursuing - rail transportation engineering, because I have a thing for trains and I think it's an easy way to make money, and I really enjoy just being out in the, uh, open world.”
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Brandon B's answer
Brandon B
New York, NY
A computer science degree would be smart.
“If I had a choice in an advanced degree, it would be in computer science or something in the digital tech world because the amount of money that you can get from that is crazy. But you don't really need the degree to really get into it, but it would have been smarter to start from there from the beginning.”
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Angel H's answer
Angel H
Montgomery, AL
Freelancing with an accounting degrees
“If I could, I would be an accountant because I'm into freelance work, and accountants can make pretty good money as a freelancing accountant, so”
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Beaton B's answer
Beaton B
Little Rock, AR
Counting on an accounting degree
“So mine would definitely be in accounting or something like that because that's where the money is and, I mean, it's a pretty cool job when you get around to it, you know?”
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Jeraldine R's answer
Jeraldine R
Colorado Springs, CO
A degree in marketing to make my business.
“I'd probably have a degree in marketing. It's something I've always wanted. I do think it's something really easy to achieve as well, but I think marketing would be a degree, and then I would, um, promote and help my small business grow with it as well.”
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Jenna Y's answer
Jenna Y
Atlanta, GA
An advanced Math degree - where the money is.
“If I could have any advanced degree, it would be in, um, probably like advanced math because I personally am not good at math, and people that are, make a lot of money.”
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Ximena Z's answer
Ximena Z
Alexandria, VA
A pro in audio or a software engineering degree.
“I think my degree will be software engineer or - how do they say it? - audio engineer because I love music, and probably I will like to be a pro in that.”
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Alexandra I's answer
Alexandra I
Baltimore, MD
A masters in psychology for deeper insight
“I think it would be psychology because I feel like in 2020, that is something that everyone has gone into, that everyone knows more about, but like, not quite, like, they know as much as general knowledge will take them. So I think that having, like, a master's level, um”
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Spencer D's answer
Spencer D
Los Gatos, CA
A master's or PhD in music to be a producer
“If I could have an advanced degree in anything, it would probably be the doctorate of musical arts or, uh, a master's in music production, and I would wanna create albums, help people get the sounds they want for their albums, and be a music producer.”
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Khenda M's answer
Khenda M
Phoenix, AZ
Get in with the MBA.
“If I could have an advanced degree, I would get my MBA, and I would go into consulting with it.”
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Luis R's answer
Luis R
Los Angeles, CA
A degree in electromagnetics to build the hyperloop
“It would have to be electromagnetism. I would be working on some sort of hyperloop or a levitating car. I've always been into that, so that would be what I would get a degree in.”
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Meagan R's answer
Meagan R
Worcester, MA
If social media is a degree, that.
“If I could have an advanced degree in anything, I would choose to have a degree in digital marketing and social media management. I'm not sure that social media management is a degree, but I want to be really, really good at it so that I could use that degree to manage social media for healthcare practices.”
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Andre P's answer
Andre P
Dumfries, VA
Earning a doctorate in divinity and following my heart.
“So my advanced degree would be a doctorate in divinity, and I would be traveling the world speaking about evangelism and church growth because that's where my heart is, you know, really getting to know people, other cultures, and bringing them to the understanding of who Christ really is. And so yeah, that's what I'd be doing.”
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Sadie K's answer
Sadie K
Strattford, NH
Drama 'free' with a master's in theater.
“I have my bachelor's in theater, but if I could get my master's in theater, I could teach on the college level, and that's really - That that's really where I'd want to teach if I was teaching 'cuz those the the students that you have in college really are like ready to try stuff, and and that's like a that's like a fun area to be in because then you can be really creatively free.”
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Mady S's answer
Mady S
Loveland, CA
A teaching degree to serve humans, not finance.
“If I could have an advanced degree, I think I would get it in teaching, education or some sort of human services role. I'd love to work in this human services role, and right now I work in finance.”
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Chris F's answer
Chris F
Williamsburg, VA
I'd major in design.
“I'd major in design.”
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Shivani P's answer
Shivani P
Cincinnati, OH
Make it marketing with a digital marketing degree
“If I could have an advanced degree in anything, I think it would be, um, something related to marketing, like digital marketing or, like, social media management or anything along the lines like that.”
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