Department of Development Studies


Overview
Welcome to the Department of Development Studies
We offer a range of exciting degree programmes on-campus and online, at BA, MSc and PhD levels. Our degrees are inter-disciplinary, combining political-economy, politics, anthropology, and history approaches to analyse processes of development in different contexts around the world.
Our academic staff create an intellectually engaged and challenging space across the many branches of international development and humanitarianism that make up Development Studies. They specialise in a range of thematic areas including sustainability and climate change, migration and displacement, conflict, humanitarian action, labour, political ecology, and aid and institutions.
Combined with exceptional resources and our interdisciplinary approach, we offer a unique learning and research opportunity for our diverse and vibrant student community.
Facts and figures
2nd in the world
QS World University Rankings 2023
2nd in the UK
QS World University Rankings 2023
Development Studies Blog
This is the blog of the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. The Department combines unrivalled expertise of regional development in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and Latin America.