What is Development Studies?

Studying real-world issues at SOAS

Development Studies considers worldwide issues relating to social and economic development and brings together many diverse subjects, including economics, politics, anthropology and geography.

Increasingly, Development Studies examines some of the most important real-world issues currently affecting humanity, including climate change, migration and displacement, conflict, humanitarian action, labour, international politics, inequality and poverty.

SOAS University of London is ranked 2nd in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Rankings 2023). Its BA

Global Development offers modules on such diverse topics as Our Planetary Future: Environment and Development; Global Forced Migration; Conflict, Rights and Justice; and The Working Poor and Labour.

Development Studies at SOAS is an exciting and intellectually stimulating subject, leading students to graduate with a deep understanding of the causes ofand responses to - social, political and economic transformation worldwide, and equipped with the skills to make a positive difference in the real-world. Staff in the Department are actively engaged in shaping government policy and research in politics, anthropology, sociology, economics, conflict and the environment, often with a focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Students in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS have the opportunity to take work placements as part of their degree, and graduates have gone on to exciting careers which make a difference in the world, with organisations such as Amnesty International, Médecins sans Frontières and the United Nations World Food Programme.

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