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Global Development and...

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Award Attendance Study Duration Start Domestic fees International fees
BA On-Campus Full-time 3 find out £20350 per year £9250 per year

About Global Development and..., BA - at SOAS University of London

The BA Global Development Combined Honours Degree is a 3-year full time degree (or 4 years when combined with a Language) draws upon the significant expertise of our academic staff.

Have you got a passion for addressing the major issues and challenges facing today's global community?

This stimulating programme examines key topics in international development, while analysing the roles and impact of a wide variety of regional and international actors. By the time you graduate, you will have cultivated a deep knowledge of the causes of and responses to poverty, marginalisation and vulnerability in developing countries and the process of dramatic social, economic and political change.

Additionally, the nature of the Combined Honours degree enables you to develop a specialist niche for yourself by studying a second subject.

See Department of Development Studies

Combine Global Development with other subjects

Other disciplines - Economics, Geography, History, International Relations, Law, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Politics, Social Anthropology, South Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, Study of Religions, World Philosophies

Languages - African Studies, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Japanese Studies, Korean, Persian, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Vietnamese


Entry requirements

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Why study at SOAS University of London

  • SOAS is in London, which is officially the best student city in the world - and has been for five years in a row (QS World Rankings 2024)
  • There are 5,630 students on campus, from 135+ countries 
  • 2nd in the UK for international faculty (QS World Rankings 2024)
  • Top 30 in the UK (The Times Good University Guide 2024)
  • Top 40 in the UK for research quality Complete University Guide 2024)
  • 6th in the UK for employment outcomes (QS World Rankings 2023)
  • Top 100 in the world for addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Peace, Justice, Poverty and Gender Equality (Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, 2023)
  • One of 35 National Research Libraries in the UK. We have over 1.5 million volumes, periodicals and audio-visual materials in 400 languages, focusing on Asia, Africa and the Middle East
  • 87% of research ranked 'world-leading or internationally excellent' (Research Excellence Framework 2021)