Author and Entangled Group head of strategy Michael B. Horn’s advice to professionals who are considering getting a postgraduate degree is to be clear about the price tag on the front end and what the return on investment (ROI) is from the programme they are looking at.

“A lot more data exists than it used to around these ROI questions, but you should know before you enrol in a graduate programme and take on a lot of debt potentially whether it’s likely to pay off if you get the job, most folks do from those programmes,” he told U2B.