Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application

We’ve already identified postgraduate study as one of the options you can choose from on completing your first degree. This chapter considers this option in more detail and, even if you have already made the decision to progress onto postgraduate training, you’ll still find some of the later sections within this chapter useful.

Firstly, we consider the range of postgraduate courses on offer: academic and professional; full-time and part-time; distance, online and blended study modes; in the UK or overseas. Then we work through your decision-making process: the advantages and disadvantages of studying beyond an undergraduate degree; thinking ...

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