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choosing an in demand masters

Hi all,

hope everyone is well. I am in need of some guidance please. I'm currently at a crossroads in my life. I graduated 3 yrs ago with a biochem degree (2.1) from a low ranked uni.

Had some serious health difficulties since 13/14 so health was always my main priority and education and employment essentially came second. Since graduating I've bounced around a few dead end jobs, the usual sales, marketing, admin, recruitment etc.
Nothing I enjoyed or want to pursue long term.

Now thankfully my health has improved a bit more and I've decided I would like to further my education with a master's degree but not for the sake of it. I would like to do something that will have a high chance of leading to skilled employment.
I've been looking at a whole range of different subjects to do a master's in-
Quantity surveying
cyber security conversion
computer science, Software engineering, AI conversion
Accounting
Finance related ones like Wealth management
Business analytics
Data science
I've even been looking at HR CIPD or Supply chain CIPS courses.

Does anyone have any advice for which masters to pursue? As I really need a set career path going forwards and hate my job at present.

very grateful, thank you all.

Reply 1

I can only comment on one of them - Cyber Security. It's big news & so attracts big funding, and therefore more and more courses are becoming available in order to fulfill the need for more specialists. Depending on your area of interest there are courses that specialise in counter-terrorism, cybercrime, cyber security and forensics, etc, also many of them have distance learning options. I think that it's important to be really interested in whatever you choose because otherwise it's going to be a slog. Good luck!

Reply 2

Original post by RealMature
I can only comment on one of them - Cyber Security. It's big news & so attracts big funding, and therefore more and more courses are becoming available in order to fulfill the need for more specialists. Depending on your area of interest there are courses that specialise in counter-terrorism, cybercrime, cyber security and forensics, etc, also many of them have distance learning options. I think that it's important to be really interested in whatever you choose because otherwise it's going to be a slog. Good luck!

Hi there, thank you for your guidance. I will definitely have a deeper look into cyber security as it does sound interesting. I just haven't really found something I'm passionate about yet. Grateful for your advice though
Original post by SimpleLearnerx10
Hi all,
hope everyone is well. I am in need of some guidance please. I'm currently at a crossroads in my life. I graduated 3 yrs ago with a biochem degree (2.1) from a low ranked uni.
Had some serious health difficulties since 13/14 so health was always my main priority and education and employment essentially came second. Since graduating I've bounced around a few dead end jobs, the usual sales, marketing, admin, recruitment etc.
Nothing I enjoyed or want to pursue long term.
Now thankfully my health has improved a bit more and I've decided I would like to further my education with a master's degree but not for the sake of it. I would like to do something that will have a high chance of leading to skilled employment.
I've been looking at a whole range of different subjects to do a master's in-
Quantity surveying
cyber security conversion
computer science, Software engineering, AI conversion
Accounting
Finance related ones like Wealth management
Business analytics
Data science
I've even been looking at HR CIPD or Supply chain CIPS courses.
Does anyone have any advice for which masters to pursue? As I really need a set career path going forwards and hate my job at present.
very grateful, thank you all.

You can't just pick a degree and then expect it to lead to a career, especially if, as I presume, you are now late 20s. If you want to catch up, you have to leverage your past degree or experience so that you graduate ahead of the cohort of 21 year olds.

A stronger strategy would be to try and get some work in a sector you want to work in health, tech, manufacturing, events, whatever, and with a couple of years' experience, make a decision on which degree, with a clear sector to return to. That pre-degree investment in deciding the sector/type of work will be a much more secure route than going to straight picking a degree.

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