Pennsylvania State University offers a course of study in professional golf management that many golf enthusiasts would enjoy. Not only does this major mandate great golf skills -- all graduates must pass a golf playing ability test -- it also requires management, analysis and business classes including golf cart fleet management, analysis of the swing and problems of small business. The curriculum requires an internship. Students can also be elected as members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America organization. Graduates receive a bachelor of science in recreation, park and tourism management with an option in golf management.
Washington State University's Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences College created the organic agriculture systems major to meet the growing demand for organic produce. As the first organic agriculture major in the nation, the program provides students with more than four acres of farm land on which to develop hands-on experience growing organic food. In addition to field experience, students also learn about organic animal and diary production, food science, soil and pest management and business aspects of organic agriculture.
If you like working on a ranch and tending to farm animals, then you should look into the ranch management major offered by Texas Christian University. Before entering the major, a business minor is required with classes in economics, accounting and finance. After entering the major, you receive an intense curriculum of classroom studies that concentrates on management principles and hands-on experience from field studies.
Ranch Management degree takes 9 months to complete with a lot of material covered in a short time frame. However, from livestock production and natural resources conservation to marketing and personnel management, graduates gain a wide variety of knowledge that fully prepares them to manage a ranch.
At Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music, you can obtain a degree in bagpipes. It stands as the nation's only bagpipes major. Instituted in 1990, this degree program honors founder Andrew Carnegie's Scottish heritage. Although small in size -- as of 2009 there has only been three bagpipes graduates -- the program requires extensive performance training as well as classroom study of the history and culture of bagpipes.
According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the latest Bagpipes graduate plans to receive a teaching certificate and start instructing others to play the unique and traditional instrument. He also earns comfortable living performing bagpipes at different venues.