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The Development Administration and Planning MSc provides students with the theoretical, empirical and practical expertise to promote societal justice and impact global developmental challenges.
About Development Administration and Planning MSc
By critically examining the theory and practice of development administration at the international, national and regional levels in a variety of contexts, the Development Administration and Planning MSc (DAP) seeks to provide you with an understanding of the processes generating social transformation, as well as with the tools, skills and abilities of engagement. Our course has a critical, analytical and comparative approach and retains the The Bartlett Development Planning Unit's (DPU) long-standing position on planning for and with action.
Development Administration and Planning has a global reputation for being one of the most diverse courses not just in terms of staff profiles and student participation but also in terms of our pedagogic approaches. Our course is strongly interdisciplinary and highly international, attracting among others, anthropologists, geographers, planners, architects, lawyers, public administrators, economists and politicians. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, our graduates have engaged in diverse professional activities, including local, regional and national government, consultancy firms and national and international NGOs, United Nations courses, international aid agencies and prestigious universities the world over.
Join The Bartlett Development Planning Unit community
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit conducts world leading research and postgraduate teaching that helps to build the capacity of national governments, local authorities, NGOs, aid agencies and businesses working towards socially just and sustainable development in the Global South. We have over 70 years of experience in academic teaching, research, policy advice and capacity building in the field of international development. Studying with us means becoming part of our dynamic community of students, academics and alumni making tangible change worldwide. We're part of The Bartlett, UCL's faculty of the built environment and #1 in the world for built environment studies (QS World University rankings by subject 2024).
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Learn more about the degree, the modules and make your application on the UCL Graduate Prospectus.
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Overseas practice engagements
Each year, our students engage in fieldwork as part of an overseas practice engagement.
Student work
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Do you have questions about studying with us? Email our team at dpu@ucl.ac.uk.