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Global Development MSc

Year of entry: 2025

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

About the course

Our Global Development courses follow an umbrella structure that house a range of more specialised master's courses, each of which explores a key dimension of global development under four broad thematic headings:

• Global political economy

• Governance and management

• Poverty and inequality

• The environment

There is no better place to study Global Development than the GDI: as one of the top institutions for our impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (THE Impact Rankings 2023), we are proud to bring cutting-edge insights from our research into all our postgraduate teaching and tackle global inequalities.

About the course

Global Development MSc This master's offers a coherent and interdisciplinary grounding in the core aspects of global development theory, policy and practice.

Global Development: Development Management MSc This course analyses the management, planning and policy-making aspects of the development process.

Global Development: Environment and Climate Change MSc Gain critical insights into the key strategies to promote climate change adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development in the context of low- and middleincome countries.

Global Development: Globalisation, Trade and Industry MSc This master's analyses industrial development strategies and international trade policies and their implications for developmental processes.

Global Development: Migration, Mobility and Displacement MSc This MSc offers a coherent, interdisciplinary and applied approach that analyses the interaction between migration and development.

Global Development: Politics, Governance and Development Policy MSc This course examines the obstacles to, and pathways towards, more legitimate, democratic and pro-poor forms of governance at global, national and local levels.

Global Development: Poverty and Inequality MSc This master's provides critical insights into different perspectives on how poverty, inequality and development can be understood, measured and explained.

Faith Adiorho, Nigeria

MSc Global Development student

“The highlight of my course so far has been discovering a particular field that I had no idea about, and it’s wonderful how I am considering pursuing a doctorate in that field now. The most challenging part has been that it’s a bit new to me. The fact that I had to write a critical review early on was a bit overwhelming, but I learnt to adapt. I now feel like ‘I can definitely do this’.“

After her studies at the GDI, alumna Rita Robert Otu returned to Nigeria in 2009 and was inspired to start the Peas Food project, teaching green skills to young women. "Emancipating women farmers from abject poverty and giving them confidence has always been my passion. As a Nigerian, I have a responsibility to grow women’s voices in agriculture. When a woman is empowered, it trickles down to the roots!”