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Post Graduate+: The real worth of a PhD Most PhDs are snapped up by academic employers, but a higher degree in economics, for example, may greatly improve your chances of a high- flying job in finance. Philip Schofield reports
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One in nine graduates chooses to do further academic study. This
does not include a similar number who enter postgraduate teacher
training and other vocational courses. Why should people likely to
have shouldered a heavy debt to take a first degree, then add to
their burden by undertaking postgraduate academic study?
There are several reasons, some better than others. Some have
merely set their sights on a career for which a postgraduate higher
degree is an essential entry qualificatio...
