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Brits, the Masters of the Universe… the Facebook Universe

University of Salford

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The University of Salford in Manchaster will offer a Masters degree in Social Media, focusing on Facebook and Twitter.

Salford claims to be the world’s first to offer a Masters course in social media, but they are not.  That title goes to Birmingham City University which announced their one-year course in Social Media in March. For a cool £4,400 ($7,200) you get a Master’s Degree of … well, let’s just say questionable value. 

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Master’s Degree in FaceBook? It’s Not April Fool’s Day Yet

Seacole Building of Birmingham City University

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Birmingham City University in the UK will offer a one-year course in Social Media that earns you a Master’s Degree for £4,400.   Current Birmingham students think:

“Virtually all of the content of this course is so basic it can be self taught.  In fact most people know all this stuff already. I think it’s a complete waste of university resources.”

Indeed it is.  Also a waste of money, if you consider the price.  After all, you can get a Master’s Degree for $499, (nofollow) without having to fiddle around with any  courses whatsoever.  Just don’t ask me what you can do with that degree. smile_eyeroll

Update: apparently early April Fool’s jokes are not that unusual.