A good starting point is the Graduate Prospects website, which has a whole section on postgraduate study at prospects.ac.uk/postgraduate_study.htm As well as general information about key things to consider and funding information, you can find detailed information on specific University Departments and a search facility so that you can look for postgraduate courses in the UK that may interest you.
At the University of Cumbria, campus libraries contain copies of postgraduate prospectuses sent to us by many Universities as well as hard copies of the Prospects Postgraduate Directory, Prospects Postgraduate Funding Guide and Prospects Postgrad UK (quarterly magazine). Many public lending libraries will also hold copies of these publications.
You may also find some more specialised information about specific career or study areas. For example, if you are looking for postgraduate teacher training courses www.gttr.ac.uk has full details about how to apply and an online application system. Or if you are interested in Psychology courses, you can find details about the various options at www.bps.org.uk These are just two examples.
It's important to consider your reasons for wanting to do postgraduate study and the relative importance of your eventual career choice. A postgraduate course is by no means a ticket to a guaranteed job, so ask course tutors carefully about the destinations of previous students if career outcomes are important to you.
If you are looking at doing a postgraduate qualification by research rather than a taught degree, you will need to take the initiative in structuring and organising the research and choosing a supportive research tutor you feel you can work with can become almost as important as the choice of research topic. There are also an increasing number of postgraduate courses taught by distance learning.
University of Cumbria students and graduates who want to discuss their postgraduate options in depth can feel free to contact us by email
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