The phrase "amateur degrees" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to degrees or qualifications that are pursued by individuals who are not professionals in a particular field, often for personal interest or hobby.
Example: "Many people pursue amateur degrees in art or music to explore their passions outside of their professional careers."
Alternatives: "non-professional degrees" or "hobbyist qualifications".
Every year, the N.F.L. scouting combine is filled with coaches and personnel gurus who gather with their stopwatches and amateur psychology degrees and nod while the medical folks send every suspicious pinkie toe to the magnetic resonance imaging test machine for a look-see.
During most of the nineteen-twenties, the best golfer in the world was Bobby Jones, who, in addition to being the Tiger Woods of his era, looked like a movie star, competed only as an amateur, had undergraduate degrees from Georgia Tech (engineering) and Harvard (English), and, except when he was playing in tournaments, worked full time as a lawyer.
They were the Cuban national soccer team, a clutch of virtual amateurs pursuing university degrees.
Today's average driver loft for amateurs is 11.5 degrees.
Each 72-foot boat is skippered by a professional captain and crewed by 17 amateur sailors with varying degrees of experience.
If so, they will most likely remake Parliament in an amateur mold to a degree never previously seen in the Fifth Republic.
"There's no way an amateur could have, with any degree of reliabilty, done what was done yesterday," Mr. Nance said.
Idol is truly a phenomenon, but to me it's Ted Mack's Amateur Hour to the hundredth degree.
Stunts are accomplished with varying degrees of success by amateur gardener-turned-stuntman Flying Jimmy Elvis, and by official card-carrying stuntmen like Tim Chitwood, the last performer standing in the famed Chitwood Thrill Show, and Chris Morena, who has performed at Walt Disney World.
While Joshua's fellow gold medallist, Hull bantamweight Luke Campbell, is most likely to join the paid ranks, others including Fred Evans may be tempted by changes in the amateur code which will allow for a degree of professionalism.
He remained at Michigan Tech and played for an upper-level men's amateur team while earning a civil engineering degree.
