I've always found it kind of ridiculous that education seems to end at age 17 in the HP universe. I mean, what the hell kind of vocational training does a high school graduate (or even 4-years bachelor's graduate) have in the real world? Not much (with a few exceptions for certain fields).

Given that a lot of magical professions seem to require extensive magical training (enchanting items, creating broomsticks and shit), and given the tremendous gap in knowledge between Hogwarts Professors and seventh students (in most cases), there must be some kind of magical graduate training. I don't remember if the concept of a "mastery" is canon or fanon, and I suppose a system based completely on apprenticeships is one possibility, but it's also reasonable that there could be magical graduate schools of some kind.

Have you read any fics that tackle the idea of graduate training well? I've read some Auror Academy and/or Unspeakable stories, but they get old (although some are done pretty well).

 

In b4 Taure.

To summarise the usual argument: The magical world doesn't need grad schools because you either learn everything relevant to 99% of jobs in school, or you get on the job training (a la Auror). It's not like the real world where specialisation is the key to success, it's more generalised, where every skill you learn in school has a use outside of it.

Also no, I've never read a decent Auror Academy or Unspeakable or even just Hit Wizard!Harry fic.

 

I remember something to the effect of Rowling saying that she intended for the seven years to be the whole of education in the magical world. Likening OWLs to a high-school diploma, and NEWTs to a college diploma.

Post-graduate study was to be something an individual chose to do on their own. Be it study/research for a Mastery, taking on an apprenticeship under a distinguished Wizard/Witch, or on-the-job training like with Aurors.

The seven years at Hogwarts was/is enough to get one's foot in the door, and plenty to open up these sort of opportunities, provided one did well enough.

You also have to remember that it wasn't that long ago that a high-school diploma WAS good enough, in the real world for the majority of jobs. Very few people went for post-secondary education, even as recently as the 70s. Today's phenomenon of everyone and their dog having a degree, is not only recent, but also the very reason behind the fact that merely having a degree no longer guarantees a person a good job.

tldr; it's the magical world. Stupid muggle shit need not apply.

 

What he said.

But a post-script; a 'mastery', as in some sort of higher qualification, I'm fairly sure is fanon. Canon refers to Snape as a 'Potions Master' because - though it's slightly archaic - teachers were referred to as schoolmasters. One or two teachers or heads of department in my schooldays were 'masters' - Biology Master, etc. He probably isn't a master in any sort of qualified way, but rather a potions teacher who happens to be above-par at potions.

So to summarise - no.

edit: Also, shouldn't this be in story search?

 

It's an ignorant newb, what more can you expect? :/

 

That OP, like any normal person reads a page from top to bottom. And as such would've found the Story Search sub-forum ~2 centimeters over the 'New Thread' button.

 

I'm an ignorant newb.

So you're probably right.

 

Almost everything has been covered by others already.

I'll just add that you're discounting the possibility of people teaching themselves.

With that in mind, if you want a post-Hogwarts education-based fic, I recommend a "goes travelling" story. Although I think most stories that use the "goes travelling" idea time-skip over it.