Development Studies MA

You’ll develop an understanding of the main debates in development, and engage in informed and critical ways with professionals from diverse backgrounds.

Institute of Development Studies (IDS) postgraduates have gone on to work as ministers in national governments, high-level officials in development organisations, civil servants, leaders of civil society organisations and high profile academics at universities across the world. They are all working to define and solve some of the most pressing global challenges.

They also apply their expertise to academic research in universities and institutes like:
the Women’s Research Institute
Educational Trust Malawi
the British Institute of Human Rights.

Graduate destinations
100% of students from IDS were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent IDS students have gone on to jobs including:
aid effectiveness specialist, Korea International Cooperation Agency
campaigner, Greenpeace
consultant, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.