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The maths components of these courses are woefully inadequate. Professional astronomy is more maths than anything. Without a thorough grounding in advanced mathematics and an ability to compute and reduce at the highest levels, you can never even pretend to be a "real" astronomer. Like it or not, it's a fact. Most graduates of these courses have what some refer to disparagingly as "Omni" or "New Scientist" educations: They can blather on like an expert about astronomical topics at a populist-level but, as soon as any mathematical ability is required, their whole shtick falls apart.
There are no shortcuts to the big league.
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