School of Environment, Education and Development

Digital Development MSc

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 Months Full-Time | 24 Months Part-Time

About the course

MSc Digital Development will train you to become a digital development champion with the necessary technical and contextual skills to lead digital development and Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) programmes and projects to completion. In recent years there has been - and continues to be - a massive expansion in the number of digital development projects in developing and transitional economies. With a skills shortage resulting in a high project failure rate, this course satisfies the pressing need for digital development champions.

Tomoya Ichikawa, Japan

MSc Digital Development student

“To expand my career in the field of international development and business in developing countries, I was looking for a postgraduate programme. In this field, Professor Richard Heeks at The University of Manchester is one of the most famous professors in the world. That's why I chose this programme.”

Find out more about Tomoya here: uom.link/gdi-pg-tomoya