--- title: You Can Now Study Pizza at This University description: A U.K. university and Pizza Hut have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship. canonical: https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-07T21:38:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:26.780Z og:title: You Can Now Study Pizza at This University og:description: A U.K. school and Pizza Hut have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship og:url: https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6da3fa3013c1a7ae/6988742d196cf42665039569/pizza-college-major-dec-2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4288 og:image:height: 2412 og:image:alt: pizza, pizza college major og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Now Study Pizza at This University twitter:description: A U.K. school and Pizza Hut have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6da3fa3013c1a7ae/6988742d196cf42665039569/pizza-college-major-dec-2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Now Study Pizza at This University by [Shay Spence / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Shay Spence / People Contributor Dec 7, 2015 9:38 PM UTC  TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-CURIOSITY-RESTAURANT-ANIMALS-ENVIRONMENT BY GUILLAUME MEYER "Everglades Pizza" is seen on January 28, 2014 at Neighborhood Pizza in the Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers, Florida. The pie has python meat, alligator sausage and frogs legs. Alligator and frog have long been on the menu in Florida but a new delicacy might slowly be creeping its way into restaurants in the Southern region of the state. A pizzeria now offers Burmese python meat on what it calls the "Everglades Pizza". The pie takes its name after the Floridas vast National Park preserve. "It was just to create talk about the shop and being creative and this thing literally just went viral. People talk about it all the time and whether it's negative or positive it really doesn't matter because the fact is: we can make it and it's delicious" says Evan Daniell in the Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers. AFP PHOTO / Guillaume MEYER (Photo credit should read Guillaume Meyer/AFP/Getty Images) TO GO WITH AFP STORY US-CURIOSITY-RESTAURANT-ANIMALS-ENVIRONMENT BY GUILLAUME MEYER "Everglades Pizza" is seen on January 28, 2014 at Neighborhood Pizza in the Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers, Florida. The pie has python meat, alligator sausage and frogs legs. Alligator and frog have long been on the menu in Florida but a new delicacy might slowly be creeping its way into restaurants in the Southern region of the state. A pizzeria now offers Burmese python meat on what it calls the "Everglades Pizza". The pie takes its name after the Floridas vast National Park preserve. "It was just to create talk about the shop and being creative and this thing literally just went viral. People talk about it all the time and whether it's negative or positive it really doesn't matter because the fact is: we can make it and it's delicious" says Evan Daniell in the Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers. AFP PHOTO / Guillaume MEYER (Photo credit should read Guillaume Meyer/AFP/Getty Images)Getty Images by [Shay Spence / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Shay Spence / People Contributor Dec 7, 2015 9:38 PM UTC While most of us probably [ate enough pizza](http://www.people.com/people/greatideas/gallery/0,,20858463%5F30226645,00.html) in college to warrant a degree in it, the dream of doing so on an official basis is now a reality. For the next five years, Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K. has teamed up with [Pizza Hut](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/09/21/pizza-hut-breadstick-crust-new/), offering an apprenticeship program for 1,500 students. The curriculum will cover everything from food production to financial analysis, the [_Manchester Evening News_](http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-university-pizza-hut-degree-10534633) reports. “Over the next few years, we will work hard to provide our apprentices and team members with the best training and development so that we can equip them with skills for life, not just for working in a restaurant,” Pizza Hut’s director of HR and marketing Kathryn Austin said in a statement. And, if you really think about it, pizza skills _are_ practical life skills. What of the world’s problem could not be solved if everyone could just gather in mutual appreciation of bread and cheese? Not to mention, it’s a topic that sparks the kind of healthy debate college students should be engaging in. [Thin crust](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/05/28/patrick-stewart-pizza-crust-debate/) or pan pizza? Light or heavy sauce? These are the questions we need answered once and for all. We also can’t help but wonder if there will be a course dedicated to [hot dog-crusted pizzas](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/06/10/pizza-hut-hot-dog-crust/). _This_ [_article_](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/12/07/pizza-college-major/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/"},"headline":"You Can Now Study Pizza at This University","datePublished":"2015-12-07T21:38:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:26.780Z","description":"A U.K. school and Pizza Hut have teamed up to offer an apprenticeship","url":"https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Pizza","Pizza Hut"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6da3fa3013c1a7ae/6988742d196cf42665039569/pizza-college-major-dec-2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shay Spence / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6da3fa3013c1a7ae/6988742d196cf42665039569/pizza-college-major-dec-2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"pizza, pizza college major","caption":"pizza, pizza college major","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4139461/pizza-hut-university-study/","name":"You Can Now Study Pizza at This University"}}]}] ```