We gotta hand it to these celebs—they were already rich and famous, and then made the
choice to go back to college AFTER already having so much success!
From Miranda Cosgrove to Megan Thee Stallion, let’s get into the celebs who got their
degrees AFTER becoming famous!
We can’t even tell you how excited we are
that iCarly is BACK!
And a whopping 14 years after the original series premiered on Nickelodeon.
“What?
Noodles can’t live happily in a hard corn shell?”
After the original series wrapped in 2012,
Miranda Cosgrove headed to the University of Southern California to study film!
She ultimately switched her major to psychology during her last year.
However, she stayed busy with acting projects
during school too- like voicing Margo in Despicable Me.
She said other than missing dorm life, her
college experience felt pretty normal!
“the only thing is I don’t live on campus, it would be a big thing if I was staying in
a dorm, I just commute but I met a lot of people there and I just went to my first football
game, USC football game.”
So glad she got to experience that!
And hey, twin beds are overrated anyway.
Disney star Bridget Mendler also studied at
USC—with her mom!
“I think it gives both of us street cred.”
Bridget majored in anthropology, which she
sort of chose by accident…But she didn’t stop there!
After studying anthropology at USC, she headed
to the MIT media lab to pursue her PhD, and then enrolled in Harvard Law School!
Talk about motivation!
“ooh, I’m not ready for this.”
Megan Thee Stallion is a full-on rap star at this point, but the rapper still has the
dream of opening up an assisted living facility, after watching her grandmas take care of each
other, growing up.
Back when she began uploading freestyling
videos of herself on social media, she was a student at Prairie View A&M University back
in Texas.
And even after collecting three Grammys, she
told Zach Sang that her original goal is still a top priority!
“I’m doing it because I know it’ll make my family proud and make myself proud and
I need more discipline so this is me being disciplined staying in school.”
Hot Girl Meg transferred to Texas Southern’s
online program and is still studying part-time to finish up her healthcare administration
degree.
And to those who question if she’ll finish
while basically taking over the music industry, she tweeted, “Ma’am I’m about to Graduate
in the fall and still gone open my facility.
SO much respect for Meg getting that degree while topping the charts too!
Emma Watson attended Hogwarts as Hermione
Granger in the Harry Potter series, and after the final film premiered in 2011, she continued
her education I-R-L!
Over the next few years, Emma studied at Brown
University in Providence Rhode Island.
And she told Ellen that her classmates had her back!
“Brown kids were weirdly protective of me,
in situations around Providence.”
Emma took a couple breaks for acting roles,
and spent her junior year at Oxford, and then graduated from Brown with a Bachelors degree
in English literature in 2014!
“Here I am in your life”
Cole and Dylan Sprouse had already wrapped
multiple films by the time they starred on the Disney Channel’s “Suite Life” series
in 2005.
But after it wrapped, Cole told E! that he and his brother both needed a break from acting.
“Taking a break is fundamental for child
stars in general.
It allows them to step outside themselves, it allows them to see themselves objectively.”
Cole began attending NYU in 2011 and tried
out a totally different field!
He studied archeology, where he participated in excavations and learned about satellite
imagery…
Dylan, on the other hand, studied video game design at NYU, while also working as a host
at a restaurant in New York.
And after they both graduated in 2015, Dylan opened up a meadery in Brooklyn and took on
a number of different acting roles…
Cole of course went on to play Jughead Jones on Riverdale, as well as a number of other
projects!
Yara Shahidi starred as Zoey Johnson on Black-ish
and its spinoff Grown-ish, and just like her Grown-ish character, she’s in college!
But not just any college- Harvard, where she’s
studying sociology and African American Studies.
“Describe what I want to do as policy adjacent…”
Yara has always come off as incredibly intelligent, and she told Glamour that since Hollywood
is ever-changing, at the moment, she’s following her own interests.
She said—“I’d rather spend the time
on something [like social studies] that has personally been a passion of mine for so long.
Hollywood isn’t moving anywhere.”
Wow- we are SO impressed with these celebs
who prioritized that higher education!
We couldn’t fit them all in one video, so let us know what other celebs come to mind,
and let us know if you want a part two!
For more on the iCarly reboot, click right over here for another Clevver News video.
And let me know in the comments what you studied
or want to study in college!
I majored in Broadcast Journalism.
For now, I’m your host Carly Henderson, you can find me on socials at @carlyhenderson_
and I’ll see you soon!