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 offerings are also interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from the wide range of expertise available at SOAS.
Studying for a Masters degree offers 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
- MSc Accounting and Finance
- MA African Studies
- MA African Studies (Literature Pathway)
- MA African Studies and Intensive Swahili
- MA Anthropology of Food
- MA Anthropology of Food and Intensive Language
- MA Buddhist Studies
- MA Chinese Studies
- MA Chinese Studies (Literature Pathway)
- MA Comparative Literature
- MA Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and Africa
- MA Cultural Studies
- MSc Development Economics
- MSc Development Studies
- MSc Development Studies (Central Asia Pathway)
- MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway)
- MSc Development Studies (Labour pathway)
- MSc Development Studies (Palestine Pathway)
- MSc Development Studies with reference to Gender
- MA Economic Policy
- MSc Economics
- MSc Economics and Environment
- MSc Environment, Politics and Development
- LLM Environmental Law and Sustainable Development.
- MA Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
- MA Gender Studies
- MA Gender Studies (Middle East Pathway)
- MA Gender Studies (Security Pathway)
- MA Gender Studies and Law
- MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries
- MSc Globalisation and Development
- MA Global Media and Communications
- 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 and Conflict
- LLM Human Rights, Conflict and Justice
- MA Human Rights Law
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Arabic)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Japanese)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Korean)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Persian)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (South East Asian Language)
- MA ... and Intensive Language (Turkish)
- MSc International Business
- LLM International Commercial and Economic Law
- MSc International Finance and Development
- MSc International Financial Management
- MA International Law
- LLM International Law
- MSc International Politics
- MA/PGDip International Studies and Diplomacy
- MA Iranian Studies
- MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Persian
- MA Islamic Law
- LLM Islamic Law
- MA Islamic 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 Law, Development and Globalisation
- LLM Law and Gender
- LLM (Master of Laws)
- MA Legal Studies (General Programme)
- MA Linguistics
- MA Linguistics and Intensive Language
- and Intensive Language (Swahili)
- MA Media in Development
- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies
- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and Intensive Language
- MSc Migration Mobility and Development
- MA Music (Development Pathway)
- MA Music (Ethnomusicology Pathway)
- MA Music (Performance Pathway)
- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies
- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Languages
- MSc Political Economy of Development
- MSc Political Thought
- MSc Politics of Africa
- MSc Politics of Asia
- MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights & Justice
- MSc Politics of the Middle East
- MA Postcolonial Studies
- MSc Public Policy, Finance and Management
- MA Religion in Global Politics
- MSc Research for International Development
- MA Social Anthropology
- MRes Social Anthropology
- MA Social Anthropology and Intensive Language
- MRes Social Anthropology and Intensive Language
- MA South Asian Area Studies
- MA South Asian Studies and Intensive Language
- MA South East and Pacific Asian Studies
- MA Taiwan Studies
- MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation
- MA Translation
- MA Transnational Queer Feminist Politics
- MA Transnational Queer Feminist Politics with special reference to the Middle East
- MSc Violence, Conflict & Development (Palestine Pathway)
- MSc Violence, Conflict and Development