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    MSc 1 year full-time,  2 years part-time, 5 years felxible

Course Description

The Global Prosperity MSc prepares you to become one of a new generation of global leaders. The programme challenges current economic and social models that have generated both astonishing levels of wealth as well as deep social and ecological dilemmas. Through your study you will examine possible solutions to contemporary global challenges and explore how much-needed economic, social and political transformations can be enacted to deliver sustainable prosperity.

The 21st century is a critical moment for humanity. From climate change to global pandemics, livelihood security and human wellbeing is under threat around the world. Existing economic structures, extractive systems and patterns of consumption are exceeding planetary limits. With GDP oriented growth failing to increase the welfare of millions of people, many communities remain isolated from the models of economic prosperity generated in the 20th century.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Prospective students must demonstrate commitment to engage with complex global challenges across a range of disciplines. Applicants with significant work experience in government, business, civil society or social entrepreneurship and/or postgraduate training are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

The programme attracts a wide diversity of both established professionals and new graduates. We recruit from diverse backgrounds in the UK and across the globe. We expect our graduates to show self-initiative and a drive to make global change across the environment, policy, economics, business and the third sector. Graduates must be able to work in truly global, cross cultural and international teams. You will learn to think across and between traditional disciplines and to apply a range of qualitative and quantitative skills alongside broader strategic and design/prototyping thinking. Graduates will gain key transferable skills in teamwork, communication, digital capabilities with particular software, academic and popular writing, presentation, visual design, foundational quantitative methods, creativity, real world problem-solving and in the methods of building engaged and participatory initiatives. The IGP organises careers events with alumni throughout the year.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Pathways to Prosperity 1: Global Legacies
  •  Researching and Measuring Global Prosperity
  •  Dissertation
  •  Pathways to Prosperity 2: Society and Livelihoods
  •  Collective Problem Solving for Inclusive Prosperity

Optional modules

  •  Debt, Finance and Prosperity
  •  China and Global Prosperity
  •  Urban Futures and Prosperity
  •  Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Core Concepts
  •  Social Theories of Prosperity
  •  Prosperity, People and Planet: Conceptual Frameworks
  •  Prosperous and Inclusive Planetary Futures
  •  New Economics of Prosperity
  •  Prosperity from Below: The Informal, the Illicit and the Popular

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