A “NEW” MASTERS COURSE - WHAT DOES IT MEAN?


When you are looking for or choosing your masters course, you are likely to come across some that are marked by the University as a NEW course.


Here MastersCompare looks at some of the possible issues around choosing a new course that hasn’t been tried before, and what that really means.


Does ‘New’ really mean new? In some cases, a course that is labelled ‘new’ may in fact be a combination of modules - if that is how the course is taught - some of which are new, but some of which are not. This might be the case, for example, where there are a number of pathways for a masters course, or where the core modules in a group of courses need to be the same, but the individual modules that allow you to tailor the course to your specific


needs or subject preference will be different, so a new combination of modules means the course is technically ‘new’. Sometimes a course will also be labelled ‘new’ when it has been revised by the University and gained new modules to bring it up to date. Occasionally, a course will be completely new, but this generally takes place only if the department or School offering the course has related courses in that area, OR where a new group of


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