Each course is a unique mix of many different ingredients — from the subjects covered, to the student body, to the end career it leads to. You can use these points as a checklist of things that you need to find out about courses of interest.

There are many factors to consider when you are weighing up courses and the institutions that offer them, but the key considerations include:

What you will learn
How you will be learning it
The conditions and cost
The end result