Migration and Global Development (Taught)

1st in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025)
3rd in the UK for our research impact in Geography and Environmental Studies in REF 2021 (Times Higher Education)
10th in the UK for Social Sciences (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2025)

Do you want to know what drives people to emigrate from and within the Global South? Do you want to learn about the effects of migration on countries and families left behind? How do migration policies shape migrants’ life-chances? Our Masters will give you the knowledge to analyse and address these and other questions.

You'll gain specialised knowledge and transferable skills in areas such as:

• migration policies

• refugee rights

• development strategies

• humanitarian assistance.

You'll develop your critical thinking and effective communication. And you'll learn to approach problems with empathy and creativity.

Our interdisciplinary approach will give you a distinctive, critical grounding in international development. You're taught migration studies by faculty with extensive knowledge from working in the field. And you’ll become part of the research community in the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, located within the School of Global Studies.

We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision. We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, if we need to make material changes, for example due to government or regulatory requirements, or unanticipated staff changes, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.