Taught by leading practitioners in a renowned Department, our Master degree programmes offer a varied and unique environment for students to improve their understanding of important social and political questions, both to enhance knowledge and improve politics. Graduates have gone on to PhDs, research institutes and careers across the public and private sectors.
The MPA offers an applied, problem-based approach, blending new theoretical developments and practice, with a view to managing public policies domestically and overseas.
This programme brings together the academic study of international relations with analysis of public policy formulation and governance beyond the nation-state.
This MSc is an advanced social science degree that equips the next generation of climate leaders with the knowledge, methods and technical skills they need to develop politically-intelligent policies to tackle climate change. It is grounded in the disciplines of political science and public policy.
This MSc trains students to apply empirical methods to explore the causes of terrorism, civil, and international conflict, the application of military force, humanitarian intervention, and the provision of global public goods.
This MSc educates a new generation of public policymakers and policy analysts, familiarising them with the necessary concepts, theories, methods and principles involved in the formulation and analysis of public policy.
The MSc Data Science and Public Policy at UCL is a one-year, full-time degree which combines intensive training in applied data science, programming, statistics and machine learning with specialised study in economics and political science.
Find a comprehensive list of postgraduate taught modules and their descriptions for Political Science students and students from outside of the Department.
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Dr Jack Blumenau, Associate Professor of Political Science and Quantitive Research Methods discusses the problems and questions the quantitive methods training will help you to answer and solve.