Postgraduate courses are designed to challenge students at a high level. As a result, some of the key areas where postgraduates stand out include:
- Appreciating different viewpoints and ideas
- Dealing with more complex ideas and problems
- Original, independent thought
- Applying learning to different domains or situations
- Engaging in-depth in a specialist topic
- Critical research and enquiry skills
- Wider repertoire of research techniques and methods
- Self-organisation and self-motivation
- Seeing things in a larger context, e.g. the context of national policy, law or historical context
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills
- Skills in project management
- Self-motivation and drive
- Experience in disseminating research and conveying complex ideas to audiences
- Transferable skills and personal qualities including resilience and determination to succeed
These are all qualities that postgraduate courses encourage students to develop and display.