How targetcourses.co.uk can help you find the right postgraduate course for you

targetcourses.co.uk is a unique comparison website that allows you to compare postgraduate courses based on a range of different criteria, including ratings by graduate employers and students themselves. The site generates a checklist for you and provides contact details and other information to help you choose which is the right masters course for you.

We've also included Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) scores and employability information collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in our data to help you make the right choice.

Student reviews
Compare courses by accessing over 2,000 student reviews (and growing). To obtain these reviews we carried out a survey asking recent/current postgrad students to rate their postgraduate experience. These results have been processed and are shown on the site as 1-5 star ratings. The survey is ongoing: don't forget to tell us your views.

Employer ratings
Compare courses using ratings of departments made by regular graduate employers. To obtain these ratings we asked over a thousand employers to tell us which universities and departments they targeted for specific jobs.

HESA data
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects destination statistics each year which capture how many postgraduate students go into work after graduation. We use the latest HESA data to help students compare courses. HESA does not accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived from the data.

Course data
Course information is supplied by UCAS, which collects data direct from universities. In addition, we carried out our own research exercise so that each course appears with its fees, study-mode and start-date.