News taken from Yahoo! UK & Ireland’s Music News:

Beatles degree launched

(Tuesday March 03, 2009 06:01 PM)

Students are to be given the chance to study a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles at a university in Liverpool.

The first-ever qualification of its kind has been announced on the website of the city’s Hope University.

“The Beatles, Popular Music & Society” consists of four 12-week taught modules and a dissertation, confirmed Mike Brocken.

The institution’s senior lecturer in popular music said it was about time such serious academy was introduced on The Fab Four.

“Forty years on from their break-up, now is the right time and Liverpool is the right place to study The Beatles“, he explained.

“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.”

Excuse me, sir, I’d like to register, please! 😀