It's been said again and again. If you want to design aircraft and components, do a degree. If you want to work as an aircraft mechanic do an apprenticeship.
Forget dreams of doing a degree and walking into a maintenance job. It simply doesn't happen - not within EASA anyway. The degrees may offer a way through the taught/academic parts of the qualification but without the 5 years hands on experience they are worthless. I get several applications a week from people who have done the degree and can't get anywhere to do the hands-on time. We can't handle more than we are doing, and I think there are a lot of people wasting a lot of time and money because they don't understand how the process works.