Postgraduate Study
The Department of Politics and International Studies is currently home to approximately 350 postgraduate students, spread across our MPhil, MSt and PhD courses.
Postgraduate study with us can be affiliated directly with the Department of Politics and International Studies or within one of our Centres.
Our work is inherently multidisciplinary so we have close links with many other departments including History, Sociology, Psychology, Law, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Social Anthropology.
Are you an International Student Considering Postgraduate Study in POLIS?
Would you like to know more about what it's like to study at Cambridge? You can chat with a current Cambridge student from your home country or even a current student within the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Chat with Cambridge students from around the world in a wide variety of disciplines here.
Chat with a current POLIS student here.
The courses we offer
- MPhil in Politics and International Studies
- MPhil in African Studies
- MPhil in Development Studies
- MPhil in Latin American Studies
- MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies
- MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
- MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History (co-taught with History and Classics)
- MPhil in Public Policy
- MSt International Relations
- PhD in Politics and International Studies
- PhD In Development Studies
- PhD in Latin American Studies
- PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
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