More young women are taking postgraduate qualifications than did ten years ago and white men are now the group least likely to do a master’s or PhD, a report shows.
A paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) also showed that universities have become dangerously reliant on China for a supply of students taking lucrative postgraduate courses. About 12 per cent of all postgraduates are from China, and 40 per cent are from overseas.
The analysis revealed how the postgraduate landscape has changed in the past decade and found that a higher proportion of postgraduates were female, young and studying full-time.
More than 50 per cent of postgraduate students study full time, up from 40 per cent a decade ago, and the most popular