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Political Science and International Studies University of Birmingham

Award Attendance Study Duration Start Domestic fees International fees
MPhil On-Campus Part-time 2 years September £4180.00 year per £15210.00 year per
MPhil On-Campus Part-time 4 years September £2090.00 year per find out
PhD, DPhil On-Campus Full-time 3 - 4 years September £4180.00 year per £15210.00 year per
PhD, DPhil On-Campus Part-time 6 - 7 years September £2090.00 year per find out

Course overview

This Mphil programme is run by the University's Department for Political Science and International Studies. The Department offers supervision leading to the research degrees of MPhil (minimum registration two years) allowing participants to complete a 40,000-word supervised thesis, and PhD (minimum registration three years) allowing participants to complete an 80,000-word thesis constituting a major piece of original research work.

We are able to supervise a wide range of topics, in line with the research interests of our teaching staff. In broad terms our research work is focused around eight research groups: Asia, Diplomatic Studies, European Politics, Political Economy, Political Theory, Security Studies, International Relations Theory and Political Sociology.


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