Congratulations on your offer to study in the Department of International Development!

This is where your journey as a King's International Development student starts.

Welcome to your on-demand offer holder hub - where you can access the information and insight you need, whenever you need it. From your course overview to taster lectures to videos from current students - it's all here!

Don’t forget you can contact your Unibuddy at any time with questions you might have. 

* Although this page was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check our website or contact us directly for the very latest information before you commit yourself to any of our courses.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our International Development courses.
• Go through our resources where we hear from our students and teaching staff about studying in the Department of International Development
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students via Unibuddy.
• Take an online tour of Strand Campus & Bush House - home of the Department of International Development.
• Sign up to your virtual offer holder event - COMING SOON

I've received an offer - what next?

Read your offer letter carefully. If there is anything you don't understand or want to question, please contact the Admissions Office through your King's Apply account.

See UCAS guidance for more information. In your UCAS Hub account you will be able to see the deadline for responding to your offer.

If you decide to accept an offer from King's, in the spring and summer you will receive details of offer-holder webpages and events to help you make your decisions and prepare for your start at King’s.

You can continue to contact the Admissions Office with any queries though King's Apply.

Tuition fees and funding

More information about fees can be found on our fees and funding pages.

International

If you are an international student, you can find more information about Visas and support here.

For more information, visit our advice pages.

About your course

If you are looking for more information about your course, you can find this on the main course pages:

• Development Studies MA
• Emerging Economies and International Development MSc
• Political Economy of Emerging Markets MSc

Module lists

Module lists for the next academic year can be found under the 'Teaching & Structure' Section of the page.

Contact your Programme Director if you have a question about your programme:

• Political Economy of Emerging Markets MSc | Dr Ewa Karwowski 
• Emerging Economies and International Development MSc | Dr Luis Andueza 
• Development Studies MA | Dr Mayssoun Sukarieh 

About the Department of International Development

We're a young, innovative and contemporary development studies department. Our mission is to explore the structures, achievements, changes, and drivers of success in those economies, recognise the development challenges they face and how these challenges have changed over time, and draw the appropriate policy lessons from their development experiences.

We believe that no academic discipline can explain the world in all its complexity. Our staff are recruited from a wide range of the social, political and economic sciences and humanities, and they bring expertise and insight from their work in different parts of the world. Our students also come from around the world – every year, we welcome students from over 40 countries.

Our research

Research at the department seeks to explore critical perspective on economic growth, modernisation and ‘progress’. We do this by exploring context-specific economic, social and political change in middle-income countries rather than applying prescriptive models of development. Our research and teaching focus on the emerging economies, especially the large, middle-income, dynamic and fast-growing economies in the Global South.

Research expertise spans political science, sociology, social anthropology, development economics, history, geography and management. We also have strong regional expertise and collaborations in Latin America.

Why study with us?

We focus on ‘emerging economies’ including Indonesia, Brazil, China, India, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Nigeria, South Korea and more.

As an interdisciplinary department, you’ll study a variety of different disciplinary perspectives including politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, management, and literature.

Our unrivalled location in the heart of London brings outstanding advantages. Students enjoy excellent academic, social and cultural opportunities and wide-ranging access to library and archival resources.

Welcome to Postgraduate International Development!

Want to find out more about what it's like to be a student at King's?

Chat to our students on Unibuddy.

A chance to watch back our International Development PGT Online offer holder event which took place in July 2024. Although it was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check our website (www.kcl.ac.uk/ghsm) or contact us directly for the very latest information before you commit yourself to any of our courses.

Research Bite: Dr Alice Evans on Gender Divergence

In this video, Dr Alice Evans one of our professors in the Department of International Development, talks about her areas of specialism and topics you can expect to discuss in her classes.

Research Bite: Indigenous women and access to justice

Dr Andrea Espinoza Carvajal from the Department of International Development talks about her research on indigenous women and access to justice in the Ecuadorean Andes.

Welcome from your Student Experience Officer

Francesca Auchterlonie talks about the support you will get, opportunities on offer to you and extra curricular activities you can get involved in in the School of Global Affairs

Find out more about Career opportunities here.

Current international poverty line a 'misleading shortcut method', say experts

Almost 200 million people were moved out of poverty globally by tweak to World Bank calculation.

Find out more here.