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 with 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 a variety of disciplines and maybe even one from your home country.
Take a virtual tour of Cambridge and the Alison Richard Building.
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)
- MSt International Relations
- PhD in Politics and International Studies
- PhD in Development Studies
- PhD in Latin American Studies
- PhD in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies