Postgraduate qualifications

Your options

Postgraduate qualifications are ideal if you want to continue developing specialist expertise in your subject area on successful completion of your bachelor’s degree. Your goal may be to further progress your industry career or you may want to move into the field of academia.

Qualifications are split into two categories - taught master’s and research degrees. You can choose to study full-time, or part-time around other commitments. You can also progress directly from your undergraduate degree or at a later date.

Taught master's qualifications (MSc and MRes degrees)

A taught master’s degree involves lectures and practical sessions, alongside the completion of a dissertation or project. At Hartpury, our taught master’s qualifications include:

• Master’s in Science (MSc): usually a one, two or three-year degree, offering compulsory and optional modules focused on a dissertation.

• Master of Research (MRes): a one, two or three-year degree, offering compulsory and optional modules focused on a significant piece of independent research.

• Postgraduate Certificate (PG Cert) and Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip): usually one-year qualifications, forming part of the full MSc or MRes degrees, providing the opportunity to study recognised shorter qualifications whilst allowing flexibility to progress each qualification through to the next level on successful completion, including the full master’s degree.

• Integrated Master’s degree (MSci): undergraduate and postgraduate level study in one qualification. Your final two years will focus on postgraduate-level study.