Global Prosperity MSc

To enhance your skills as a transition leader, the IGP will provide you with both a formal academic curriculum and a supplementary personal development curriculum:

• The formal curriculum comprises the core MSc modules, two options from across UCL and a dissertation project. Leading experts will contribute to the course as guest lecturers and you’ll have an academic supervisor who will support your work.
• The personal development curriculum will help you gain complementary skills and aptitudes through workshops, weekly seminars and mentorship. 

Compulsory modules

Pathways to Prosperity 1: Global Legacies
Researching and Measuring Global Prosperity
Dissertation
Pathways to Prosperity 2: Society and Livelihood
Collective Problem Solving for Inclusive Prosperity
Pathways to Prosperity 3: Regeneration and Ecology
Prototyping Planetary Prosperity

Optional modules

Pathways to Prosperity 2: Society and Livelihoods
Collective Problem Solving for Inclusive Prosperity
Debt, Finance and Prosperity
China and Global Prosperity
Urban Futures and Prosperity
Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Core Concepts
Social Theories of Prosperity
Pathways to Prosperity 3: Regeneration and Ecology
Prototyping Planetary Prosperity

And/or other modules across UCL, subject to timetabling, availability and approval by the home and teaching department.

Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.

Dissertation

All students undertake an independent research project leading to a dissertation (12,500 words), which may be fieldwork- or literature-based. You will also be required to prepare a shorter article at publication standard (1,500 words).

Fieldwork

Some of the modules will include short, 1-day field trips, to take place locally. You can also undertake fieldwork, both in the UK or elsewhere in the world – after approval by the Programme Leader – as part of your dissertation.

Information about tuition fees for this programme is available on the UCL Graduate Prospectus.

There are a range of loans and funding opportunities available to help prospective students with their studies. 

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding section of the UCL website.

This programme will prepare students from a range of academic backgrounds for careers in policy-making, social and sustainable entrepreneurship, education, government, the third sector, and business, as well as doctoral-level research.

After graduation, students are expected to go on to define new routes to prosperity through working in policy-making, management and shared value, entrepreneurship, activism, education and research. IGP's extensive network of external partners and alumni will benefit students in building their careers and especially in their entrepreneurial endeavours.