Taught Masters Degree Programmes Listing
SOAS offers more than 200 postgraduate programmes (taught and online/distance learning), all providing specialist focus, flexible, tailored learning and an international perspective. Many of our degree o fferings are also interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from the wide range of expertise available at SOAS.
Studying for a Masters degree o ffers a range of benefits: it provides an opportunity to pursue a subject in greater depth, to acquire new skills and greater knowledge, to prepare for a research degree or to help you demonstrate your advanced skills and abilities in the competitive job market.
Postgraduate Degree Programmes
The following postgraduate degrees are available at SOAS
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Persian)
- MA Advanced Chinese Studies
- MSc African Politics
- MA African Studies
- MA African Studies and Intensive Swahili
- MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages
- MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali (not running 2019/20)
- MA Anthropology of Food
- MA Anthropology of Food and Intensive Language
- MA Anthropology of Media (not running 2019/20)
- MA Anthropology of Media and Intensive Language (not running 2019/20)
- MA Arts of Asia and Africa (not running 2020/21)
- MSc Asian Politics
- MA Buddhist Studies
- MA Chinese Studies
- MA Chinese Studies (Literature Pathway)
- MA Comparative Literature (Africa / Asia)
- MSc Comparative Political Thought
- MA Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa
- MSc Contemporary China Studies
- MA Critical Media and Cultural Studies (not running 2020/21)
- MA in Cultural Studies
- MSc Development Economics
- MSc Development Studies
- MSc Development Studies (Central Asia Pathway)
- MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway)
- MSc Development Studies (Palestine Pathway)
- MSc Economics
- MSc Economics and Environment
- MSc Environment, Politics and Development
- LLM in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development.
- MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
- MMus Ethnomusicology
- MSc in Finance
- MSc Finance and Financial Law
- MA Gender and Sexuality
- MA Gender and Sexuality with special reference to the Middle East
- MA Gender Studies
- MA Gender Studies and Law
- MA in Gender Studies with special reference to the Middle East
- MA in Global Cinemas
- MSc Global Corporations and Policy
- MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries
- MA Global Digital Cultures
- MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy
- MSc Globalisation and Development
- MA Global Media and Postnational Communication
- MA History
- MA History and Intensive Language
- MA History of Art and/or Archaeology
- MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia
- MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia and Intensive Language
- MA History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East
- MA History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East and Intensive Language
- MSc Humanitarianism, Aid & Conflict
- LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice
- MA in Human Rights Law
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Arabic)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Japanese)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Korean)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (South East Asian Language)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Turkish)
- LLM in International Commercial and Economic Law
- MSc International Finance and Development
- MA International Journalisms
- MA in International Law
- LLM in International Law
- MSc International Management
- MSc International Management (China)
- MSc International Management (Japan)
- MSc International Management (Middle East and North Africa)
- MSc International Politics
- MA/PGDip International Studies and Diplomacy
- MA Iranian Studies
- MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Persian
- MA Islamic Intellectual History
- MA Islamic Intellectual History and Intensive Language
- MA in Islamic Law
- LLM in Islamic Law
- MA Islamic Studies
- MA Israeli Studies
- MA Japanese Studies
- MA Japanese Studies (Dual Degree Programme)
- MA Japanese Studies and Intensive Language
- MA Korean Studies
- MA Korean Studies (Literature Pathway)
- MA Korean Studies and Intensive Language
- MSc Labour, Activism and Development
- MA Language Documentation and Description
- LLM in Law, Development and Globalisation
- MRes in Law
- LLM in Law and Gender
- LLM (Master of Laws)
- MA Legal Studies (General Programme)
- MA Linguistics
- MA Linguistics and Intensive Language
- MA...and Intensive Language (Swahili)
- MA African Studies (Literature Pathway)
- MA Japanese Studies (Literature Pathway) (not running 2019/20)
- MA Media in Development
- MA Medical Anthropology
- MA Medical Anthropology and Intensive Language
- MSc Middle East Politics
- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies
- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and Intensive Language
- MSc Migration Mobility and Development
- MA Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
- MA Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
- MA Music in Development
- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies
- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages
- MA Pacific Asian Studies
- MA Palestine Studies
- MA Palestine Studies and Intensive Language
- MMus Performance
- MSc Political Economy of Development
- MSc Politics Of China
- MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights & Justice
- MA Postcolonial Studies
- MSc Public Financial Management
- MSc Public Policy and Management
- MA Religion in Global Politics
- MA Religions of Asia and Africa
- MA Religions of Asia and Africa and Intensive Language
- MA Religious Arts of Asia
- MSc Research for International Development
- MA Sinology
- MA Social Anthropology
- MRes Social Anthropology
- MRes Social Anthropology and Intensive Language
- MA Social Anthropology of Development
- MA Social Anthropology of Development and Intensive Language
- MA Social Anthropology Programme with Intensive Language
- MA South Asian Area Studies
- MA South Asian Studies and Intensive Language
- MA South East Asian Studies
- MA South East Asian Studies & Intensive Language
- MSc State, Society and Development
- MA Taiwan Studies
- MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation
- MA Translation
- MA Turkish Studies
- MA Turkish Studies and Intensive Language
- MSc Violence, Conflict & Development (Palestine Pathway)
- MSc Violence, Conflict and Development