Overview

This Development Studies course from the University of Cambridge seeks to provide students with a critical and reflexive programme that encourages them to examine closely the role of the main development actors, institutions, and policies and ask who actually benefits from development interventions designed and implemented within global and national power structures.

Key facts:

The MPhil in Development Studies allows space for students to capture what they desire. The emphasis on critical reflection privileges analytical approaches to development as opposed to more practice-based or vocational strategies.

Students will come away from the MPhil will a broad and incisive understanding of development, its institutions, actors and interests. In doing so, the MPhil seeks to provide students with a solid foundation for consistent future growth through various fields of development, whether in scholarship or practice.

Continuing

Several students annually continue to the PhD in Development Studies. For continuation on to the PhD candidates will have to achieve an average of 70 (high pass) for their overall mark in the MPhil course. They will also need an acceptable PhD proposal.

In recent years Development Studies students have also been accepted as PhD students by the Faculties of Education, Social and Political Sciences, and History, by the Departments of Social Anthropology, Geography, and Land Economy, by POLIS, and by the Judge Business School.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Development economics
Institutions and development
Sociology and politics of development
Globalisation, business and development
Analytical approaches

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 9 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-26 00:00:00

Language

English

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110

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7.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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110

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General requirements

Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK High II.i Honours Degree.

If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.

The equivalent of at least a high II.i degree in the British university system.

Tuition Fees

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46128 GBP / year

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32022 GBP / year

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Living costs

Cambridge

United Kingdom

846 - 1465 GBP / month

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Key information

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

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Academic requirements

English requirements

IELTS & PTE Test Preparation

Other requirements

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Living costs

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