No longer the preserve of eggheads, hyper-aesthetes or carbuncular information scientists, Masters degrees are the new career must-have. In a market place swamped with more fresh graduates each year, an MA, MSc or MBA on the CV is increasingly seen as providing its holder with a vital edge.
As participation rates in higher education rise, and as ever more students get Upper Seconds and Firsts, first-degree graduates need something else to make them stand out. “You could say that degrees are the new A-levels and Masters are the new degrees,” says a disgruntled lecturer in humanities at Warwick University.
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