International Social and Public Policy

Overview

Meeting human needs and increasing well-being are universal policy goals but these are addressed differently around the world, with different roles for key stakeholders such as governments, NGOs, families and markets. The International Social and Public Policy programme from London School of Economics and Political Science incorporates an international and comparative perspective.  Looking at low, middle, and high-income countries, you will gain the skills to identify key social challenges and to analyse the social and public policies used to address them, and the role of difference actors in these processes.

You can choose to follow one of six streams. You can take either the general stream:

• MSc International Social and Public Policy

Or you can choose one of the following specialist streams:

• MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)

• MSc International Social and Public Policy (Migration)

• MSc International Social and Public Policy (Non-Governmental Organisations)

• MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)

• LSE-Fudan Double Master's in International Social and Public Policy

Whichever stream you choose, ISPP will equip you for a career in social and public policy within government, NGOs, international organisations, private sector providers, or in academia.

The MSc ISPP replaces, consolidates and builds upon five previous MSc programmes: Social Policy and Planning, European and Comparative Social Policy, Social Policy and Development, Social Policy and Development (NGOs) and Social Policy (Research).

Careers

Students who have graduated from programmes similar to this have gone on to work for:

• different UN agencies including UNDP, UNICEF and UNHCR

• a variety of small and large NGOs including Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières, International Red Cross and One World

• action international or intergovernmental organisations such as the World Economic Forum, European Commission and World Bank

• consulting companies

• government ministries.