Research on Islands and Small States University of Malta

Overview

The Master of Arts in Research on Islands and Small States from University of Malta  is intended to be inter-disciplinary and will relate to economic, social, environmental and political issues associated with islands and small states. The different study units offered by the programme are designed so as to strengthen your capacities to understand and identify the advantages and constraints associated with small country size and insularity. The programme should enhance your capacities for thinking, reasoning, conceptualizing, and assessing key theoretical, and applied, aspects relating to islands and small states, thus, additionally, contributing to your intellectual development.

Career opportunities include the following:

As a successful graduate, you will be considered as having relevant qualification for positions in

• (a) international and regional organisations which have small islands states as one of their constituencies (such as the World Bank, the IMF, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, and others)
• (b) Ministries of Foreign Affairs in small states and
• (c) universities of small states.
• In addition, you may also proceed to follow a PhD programme in the same area of study.