The MSc Development Economics is the flagship Master's programme offered by the SOAS Economics Department. It integrates two fundamental intellectual traditions that our unique Department has cultivated for decades: a rigorous pluralist theoretical approach to economics and a focus on real-world development issues using modern economic analytical tools.

The purpose of the MCom in Local Economic Development is to develop an advanced level of knowledge, skills, and applied competence in the field of Local Economic Development (LED).

The programme offers advanced training in economics and econometrics, while it also provides a wide comparative perspective on economic development. In addition, the student can zoom in more specific problems of developing economies like poverty and inequality, the impact of globalization, agriculture and rural institutions, or financial development.

MSc Economics and Finance for Development course will provide you with a systematic understanding of economic approaches to development and in particular, the role of finance and financial institutions. Students will be able to evaluate the merits of the various mechanisms of financing development and to understand the basis for financial policy.

The PhD in Development Economics is a research degree offered by the Department of Economics and is also part of the PhD pathway, 'International Development', within the Bloomsbury Doctoral Training Partnership. The latter forms one of the few Centres recognised by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), thereby receiving financial support, and especially individual grants, for MSc and PhD students.

The DEIN-Circular Master provides advanced, specialized and multidisciplinary training in the field of sustainable economic development and innovation, with two alternative profiles, one oriented towards R&D and innovation management and policies and the other to the Circular Economy and sustainable development.

The purpose of the MCom in Development Economics is to develop the applied competence of the student on an advanced level in the mastering, analysis, interpretation, and understanding of developmental economic principles and methods.

The MSc Global Development 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.

The rapid pace of globalization has increased the demand for professionals with training in international economics and economic development. Our one-of-a-kind Master of Science in International and Development Economics (IDEC) provides students with the knowledge and skills to understand how market forces can be harnessed to empower developing countries to break from cycles of poverty.

The Economics & Policy MSc offers strong disciplinary and methods training on Economics with an eye to applying key methodological tools in the analysis of economic policy making. It aspires to train professional economists who will embark on careers in both private and government sectors as well as international organisations that are responsible for designing and implementing economic policy.

The MSc Development Economics with Work Placement Year is the flagship Master's programme offered by the SOAS Economics Department. It combines the two core intellectual traditions nurtured for decades in our unique department: a pluralist approach to economics and a focus on real-world development issues.

The MEDEG programme is offered by a consortium of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and Lund University (Sweden). You study the first year either in Groningen or Madrid. In the second year, all students move to Sweden to specialise in development and growth issues at Lund University School of Economics and Management. The programme provides you with the theoretical and quantitative tools needed to grasp the main debates in economics and other social sciences, as well as the specialised understanding of context, institutions, and historical legacies in developing economies required to deal with the full complexity of development issues.

The MSc in Economics and Development offers lessons and research projects in the heart of Florence. With its interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of economics and an excellent student to staff ratio, this MSc offers an international environment thanks to its students which come from all over the world, and its teaching staff from the Department of Economics and Management, the Department of Statistics, the Department of Law, and the Department of Political Science of the University of Florence together with visiting professors from other universities around the world.

The Master in Economics of the Austrian School aims to provide students with the tools and methods of the Austrian School of Economics, as well as the knowledge to apply them to the analysis of economic problems. Over several months of training, the student will achieve a high degree of knowledge in the field of market processes, monetary economics, economic cycles, the evolutionary study of institutions, the analysis of interventionism and innovation processes. technological.

With a double degree from the University of Göttingen (Germany), you will obtain specialised knowledge of international markets and the global interconnections between national economies. What are the consequences of globalisation for the socioeconomic and institutional differences between countries and what roles do multinational companies play in this respect? You will learn to apply the tools of modern economic analysis to issues of development policy and to communicate effectively with researchers, policymakers and practitioners on development issues.