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We want you to succeed in your studies, so many of our postgraduate qualifications have entry requirements to ensure you’re ready to study them. From an undergraduate degree to professional experience, find out what you’ll need to gain entry to postgraduate study.
You’ll typically be expected to have an undergraduate degree to gain entry on our postgraduate qualifications. But you may also have professional experience, other qualifications, or prior university-level study that’ll help set you up for success. You’ll find individual entry requirements on our qualification and module descriptions.
Entry requirements could be:
In some cases, if you don’t hold the required prerequisite qualifications, we may accept significant experience as ‘alternative entry’ onto a qualification.
Our module and qualification descriptions may also include information about:
Check the Entry requirements section on the qualifications you’re interested in to find out what you need to get started.
To find your postgraduate qualification, visit our A–Z of postgraduate courses or use our course search box below.
To be successful at postgraduate level, you’ll need some key study skills:
Our Help Centre has more detailed information on postgraduate study skills, and how to prepare for postgraduate study.
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