{"id":549,"date":"2016-01-25T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=549"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:57:46","slug":"is-a-postgraduate-degree-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2016\/01\/25\/is-a-postgraduate-degree-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a postgraduate degree necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/students-in-the-library-for-page-20-28523-0230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-550\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/students-in-the-library-for-page-20-28523-0230-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"students in the library for page 20 28523-0230\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/students-in-the-library-for-page-20-28523-0230-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/students-in-the-library-for-page-20-28523-0230.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/news\/postgraduate-degree-necessary-get-job\" target=\"_blank\">article appeared in the THES <\/a>last Thursday on this topic. Victoria Halman investigated how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification, usually a Masters,\u00a0to help them land a first job. It is a well researched article which is worth a read and which shows the pros and cons. The key is to find out how employers in your chosen career area would view such additional study. If you want to discuss\u00a0your further study plans\u00a0with someone impartial then you can arrange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/one-to-one\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">to talk to a Careers Adviser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/find-further-study\/why\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Our website <\/a>also carries advice and information if you are considering a postgraduate course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An article appeared in the THES last Thursday on this topic. Victoria Halman investigated how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification, usually a Masters,\u00a0to help them land a first job. It is a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[297],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}