Is it worth spending another few years at college? An advanced degree can help a graduate become more employable and earn a higher salary

Whether you want to further your career or broaden your educational horizons, there are hundreds of postgraduate options– which are the top university courses?

Institutes of technology have a wide selection of popular postgrad courses, from cloud computing to social care, biopharmceutical science to screenwriting, traditional music to polymer technology

A selection of popular courses from other Irish third-levels

More than half of all undergraduates now go on to postgrad study – and there’s plenty to choose from

Conversion courses offer those not happy with their initial choice of study a second chance to start again in a new field

Postgraduate degree can be a great springboard to a specialised area

PhD and research masters students are highly disciplined, innovative thinkers and excellent communicators

MBAs are expensive and hard work is a given but the qualification can boost your salary and career

With tuition and expenses cheaper in other European countries, students canopt to study further afield

Tales from abroad: when you move to another country to study, everything about your life will change

‘Graduate-level study is challenging, and it’s challenging to juggle it with family life and with my working life’

‘Most artists just love what they do, and that’s the thing that keeps you going’

‘All of the healthcare technologies you could think of, I’ve had them on my face’