A postgraduate diploma or PGDip is a postgraduate qualification awarded typically after a bachelor's degree. It is awarded to boys and girls, men and women upon the completion of a higher education postgraduate program. It is considered to be at a comparable level to a master's degree, even if it requires to students fewer study credits to achieve then a master's degree. It is commonly awarded to men and women who have completed most or all of the courses of a master's programme, but did not do the master's dissertation. Graduates and young professionals can follow a postgraduate diploma or PGDip in order to acquire specific and deep knowledge in the sector they want to work for without having to invest the same efforts and consuming of time requested by a master program or a PHD.