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Emerging Economies and International Development MSc
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This Emerging Economies and International Development MSc is an interdisciplinary social science degree in international development with a unique focus on middle-income countries. It explores what we can learn from the experiences and development models of these emerging powers.
Key benefits
- Enjoy a distinctive approach to development that focuses on middle-income countries.
- Focus your studies on development theory and practice.
- Learn from a multidisciplinary course taught by experts in international development, economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and history.
- Choose from an extensive selection of optional modules, spanning research methods, development practice, gender, social policy, poverty and inequality, and region-specific teaching.
- Taught by a truly international department of academics with research, field work, and policy experience from around the world.
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Employability
As an Emerging Economies and International Development MSc graduate, you will be equipped with a combination of research training, development practice skills and subject knowledge that can be applied in a number of international development roles as well as in national policy.
The expertise and skills you learn in this programme are very attractive to the labour market and will enhance your employability in the development sector, both within the UK and other OECD countries, as well as within emerging economies.
But you’ll also be able to use your transferable skills in a number of alternative careers, such as in consultancy organisations, in private sector companies with global operations, or in policymaking.
Graduates of the Emerging Economies and International Development MSc have gone on to work in:
- Development Think Tanks
- International Non-Governmental Organisations
- Government and policy
- Consultancy and advisory bodies
- Labour rights consultancy
- Women’s rights consultancy
- United Nations
- Social enterprises
Curious to find out more? Access on-demand content including taster lectures and talks, and meet our current staff and students on our subject hub page.
Our professional network
Where can a degree like this take you? Hear from 2020 graduate Sairam Subramanian:
Role: Author of Two Faced Three Knives a Sustainability Fiction Novel & Advisor/International Development Consultant for Palladium India and X - Lead India.
As a consultant I advise on international development projects funded by ADB / DFID / DFAT / IFC / CSRs in thematic areas of agricultural value chains, entrepreneurship, women empowerment and youth development. As a novelist I'm providing voice to sustainability issues through the genre of crime fiction. King's gave me the international perspective on wicked development issues as well as a superior flair for analytics writing. It definitely boosted my professional profile and ability to participate in contemporary international development issues.
Sairam's top career tip:
I would say keep an open mind, absorb every moment at Kings as a sponge and break all self created barriers to your ambitions.
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Employability
As an Emerging Economies and International Development MSc graduate, you will be equipped with a combination of research training, development practice skills and subject knowledge that can be applied in a number of international development roles as well as in national policy.
The expertise and skills you learn in this programme are very attractive to the labour market and will enhance your employability in the development sector, both within the UK and other OECD countries, as well as within emerging economies.
But you’ll also be able to use your transferable skills in a number of alternative careers, such as in consultancy organisations, in private sector companies with global operations, or in policymaking.
Graduates of the Emerging Economies and International Development MSc have gone on to work in:
- Development Think Tanks
- International Non-Governmental Organisations
- Government and policy
- Consultancy and advisory bodies
- Labour rights consultancy
- Women’s rights consultancy
- United Nations
- Social enterprises
Curious to find out more? Access on-demand content including taster lectures and talks, and meet our current staff and students on our subject hub page.
Our professional network
Where can a degree like this take you? Hear from 2020 graduate Sairam Subramanian:
Role: Author of Two Faced Three Knives a Sustainability Fiction Novel & Advisor/International Development Consultant for Palladium India and X - Lead India.
As a consultant I advise on international development projects funded by ADB / DFID / DFAT / IFC / CSRs in thematic areas of agricultural value chains, entrepreneurship, women empowerment and youth development. As a novelist I'm providing voice to sustainability issues through the genre of crime fiction. King's gave me the international perspective on wicked development issues as well as a superior flair for analytics writing. It definitely boosted my professional profile and ability to participate in contemporary international development issues.
Sairam's top career tip:
I would say keep an open mind, absorb every moment at Kings as a sponge and break all self created barriers to your ambitions.
Application closing date guidance
We encourage you to apply as early as possible so that there is sufficient time for your application to be assessed. We may need to request further information from you during the application process.
King's College London is committed to the recruitment of students with the greatest academic ability and to maintain a diverse student population. In order to ensure a balanced international student population for our most competitive programmes, we have implemented the following deadlines:
For applicants who are currently residing in mainland China, the first application deadline is 10 January 2025 (23:59 UK time).
- We highly encourage you to apply by this deadline due to high demand, but applications will continue to be reviewed thereafter until the final application deadline on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time).
- If you reside in mainland China and apply for this programme after the above final deadline, your application may be automatically withdrawn and you will not be eligible for an application fee refund.
For all other applicants, our first application deadline is on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time). The final application deadlines for this programme are:
- Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2025 (23:59 UK time)
- Home fee status: 25 August 2025 (23:59 UK time)
After the first application deadline in March:
- if the programme is not yet full, we will continue to accept applications until all available places are filled up to the final application deadlines above
- if the programme becomes full before the final application deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications
Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline, and we are unable to process further offers because places are filled and we close the course before the final application deadline.
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