Entry requirements

Our courses have different entry requirements, please select an individual course to find out more:

  • MSc Agricultural Development Economics
  • MSc Agricultural Economics
  • MSc Food Economics and Marketing
  • MSc Research Agricultural and Food Economics

Entrants to this course are normally required to have a good honours degree (or equivalent from a University outside the UK) in Economics, Agricultural Economics or another subject with adequate training in economic principles and quantitative methods. Well qualified applicants with quantitative skills from their first degree, but without an economics background, may be allowed entry provided they attend an economics preparatory course delivered by the Department in the September before the start of the MSc course.

Entrants to this course are normally required to have obtained an honours degree or its equivalent in agriculture, forestry, botany, biological, soil, environmental, or social sciences; in rural development, development planning and management or a related subject. Applicants with other qualifications and who have at least 2 years' professional experience in a relevant field of agriculture and development are also eligible to apply for admission to this course. References are also taken into account.

  • MSc Applied Development Studies
  • MSc Communication for Innovation and Development
  • MSc Social Development and Sustainable Livelihoods

Entrants to this course are normally required to have obtained an honours degree or its equivalent in a relevant subject but applicants with other qualifications as may be approved by the Senate, and who have at least 2 years' professional experience in a relevant field of development work are also eligible to apply for admission to this programme. References are also taken into account.

  • MSc Climate Change and Development

Entrants to this programme are normally required to have obtained an honours degree or its equivalent in a related subject, for example environmental studies / sciences, or development. Applicants with other qualifications approved by the Senate, and who have at least 2 years' professional experience in a relevant field of development work are also encouraged to apply for admission to this programme. References are also taken into account.

  • MSc Development Finance

Entrants to this course are normally required to have obtained an honours degree or its equivalent in a relevant subject which includes a significant element of economics but applicants with other qualifications as may be approved by the Senate, and who have at least 2 years' professional experience in a relevant field of development work are also eligible to apply for admission to this course. References are also taken into account.

  • MSc Development Policy, Practice and Process
  • MSc Environment and Development

Entrants to this course are normally required to have obtained an honours degree or its equivalent in a relevant subject which includes some economics but applicants with other qualifications as may be approved by the Senate, and who have at least 2 years' professional experience in a relevant field of development work are also eligible to apply for admission to this course. References are also taken into account.

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