MSc Global Development with Work Placement Year at SOAS University of London

Programme overview

The MSc Global Development with Work Placement Year programme provides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in development theory and practice and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis. Development Studies is a dynamic field concerned with processes of change in the South — social and economic, political and cultural — and the major policy challenges they present to efforts to overcome poverty and insecurity.

Department: Department of Development Studies | Duration: 2 years | Study mode: full-time or part-time (includes placement year) | 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, compulsory and optional modules) and a 60 credit dissertation. Core and compulsory modules include Dissertation in Development Studies, Theory, policy and practice of development, Political Economy of Development.

Career pathways

A degree from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS will further develop your understanding of the world and how society is organised, with specific focus on violence and conflict, the role of aid, refugees and forced migration. Graduates leave with a range of transferable skills, including critical thinking, analytical skills and cultural awareness.

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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; a further £1,425 placement year fee applies as listed on the course page Source

International applicants: GBP 25,320 a year. Full-time tuition fee; a further £1,425 placement year fee applies as listed on the course page Source

Intake: September

Duration: 2 years

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

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