MSc Environment, Politics and Development at SOAS University of London

Programme overview

Why are we facing a planetary ecological crisis? How are politics and governance changing in response to climate change? And what can we do to solve the world’s major socio-ecological problems?

Department: Department of Development Studies | Duration: 1 year | Study mode: full-time or part-time | Intake: September | Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Students must take 180 credits per year comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and optional modules) and a 60 credit dissertation. Core and compulsory modules include Analytics in Political Ecology, Projects and Solutions in Political Ecology, Dissertation in Development Studies.

Career pathways

The MSc Environment, Politics and Development (EPD) equips graduates with transferable critical and analytical skills, complemented by cultural, political and economic knowledge of the regional settings in which the socio-ecological consequences of global capitalism unfold. Below you will find a list of employers our graduates have gone on to work for.

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Application information

Entry requirements

We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher. Applicants from Ghana: Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution accepted as equivalent to a UK 2:2: Lower Second Class Hons.

Domestic applicants: GBP 12,965 a year. Full-time tuition fee Source

International applicants: GBP 25,320 a year. Full-time tuition fee Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year

Apply through the official page: https://www.soas.ac.uk/how-apply-postgraduate-study

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