Prince William Headed Back To College For A Degree In Farming - Vanity Fair

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Not long after I was born, my mom went back to school to get a graduate degree in elementary education. Now Prince William is undergoing what, surely, will be the exact same experience: the new father of Prince George, according to Us Weekly, is heading back to school, enrolling in a 10-week program at Cambridge. Royals: they’re just like us!

And lest you think the Duke of Cambridge will merely be sipping tea and getting fancy book-learnin’ in the city that gave him his title, Prince William is in fact going back to learn about agricultural management. The program, run by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, will “help provide the Duke with an understanding of contemporary issues affecting agricultural business and rural communities in the United Kingdom." At the end of a long day learning to run a plow and mapping out the sun cycle for maximum growth for his soybean plants, the Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus will also be provided a dorm room on campus should he need to stay the night. Hey, it’s no Buckingham Palace, but his roommate agreed to bring the mini-fridge and Wills has a sweet Scarface poster left over from his St. Andrews days, so it should be pretty cozy after a week or so.

Conveniently, the 10-week “executive education” program will wrap up in mid-March, leaving the Prince plenty of time to prepare for the big family vacation to Australia and New Zealand in April. It will be just like that trip you took to Daytona Beach after your own college graduation, really.