This may be the best reason to return to school; the University of Australia is offering a Ph.D. in heavy metal and is offering up a scholarship to study it, too.Kerrang reports that the University of Newcastle will host two fully-funded Ph.D. scholarships to study “the Geographies of Heavy Metal.”

The school says you can even study abroad if you want to fly to Finland to study death metal.

You’ll get a living allowance of over $27,000 to study heavy metal culture.

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If you could study rock or metal culture, which band would you study first?