International University of Japan (IUJ)
MA in International Development
Minamiuonuma, Japan
MA
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2027
TUITION FEES
JPY 3,200,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Application deadline for International Applicants: First is on 10th December, 2026. Second on 11th February, 2027. Last on 14th April. Application deadline for Domestic Applicants (residents in Japan): First is Jan 21, 2027. Second is March 23, and last is May 27.
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Key Summary
About: The MA in International Development at the International University of Japan builds on a long-standing mission to train leaders with specialized theoretical and practical knowledge and cultural empathy. The programme emphasizes modern economics and covers development issues broadly. Its internationally diverse student body and extensive alumni network across many countries create an ideal environment for studying global development, development policy, development economics, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Career Outcomes: Graduates often pursue roles in international development, development agencies, nonprofit and NGO management, policy analysis, research, consulting, multilateral organisations, government, private-sector development projects. They may work in advocacy and programme management.
As a successive expansion of this MA degree program in International Development shows, our leading program in International Development maintains the highly reputable development of its educational quality particularly related to development issues. While its core courses are mainly related to modern economics, its outstanding achievements in education comprehensively covering development issues can be found not only in the number of graduates of this degree program but also in the number of countries of all graduates. The diversity of countries of enrolled students provides one of the most ideal environments to study international development issues. The strong human network of the graduates of this program shows the quality of this educational program as well as the benefits which students of this program will gain after their graduation.
The program encompasses a wide range of public policy issues in the context of socio-economic development. These issues are examined in the areas of finance, trade, investment, human resources development, environment, sustainable development, and urban and regional development. Beyond the understanding of the immediate and specific circumstances of country-specific issues, the program provides students with as many opportunities as it can, in order to let students share/deepen development issues of different countries under its rigorous coursework environments. The program consists of required and elective courses and enrolled students can choose several elective courses based on their own research and policy-related interests after taking required courses, all of which are designed to make students use highly sophisticated analytical tools smoothly in exploring their own development issues.
Our faculty members devote themselves to provide students with our expertise and experience to contribute to their successful thesis writing. The diversity of students over more than thirty different countries as well as highly professional teaching staff members, all of whom have been awarded their PhDs by reputable graduate schools abroad, resulting in the largest benefits in obtaining an MA degree in International Development.
The program is also extremely useful for individuals who wish to work in international organizations, many of which have been concerned with development issues. An experience as a student enrolled in this program definitely gives you priceless values; the drastic improvement in your human capital equipped with highly analytical tools which are impressively powerful for analyzing development issues, and the development of a strong human network particularly in Asian countries including Central Asia, which will definitely result in a maximized outcome in your future career if you are considering an unbeatable success in Asia related fields.
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