Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
Events

Globalisation and Development Studies

Explore how globalisation dynamics shape lives in resource poor settings and how local actors tackle global challenges. Get a better understanding of how globalisation and development are linked and how this plays out on the ground.

Events
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Your future

As a Globalisation & Development Studies graduate, your thorough academic training prepares you for both a professional and an academic career.

Some of the companies and institutes where our alumni work:

  • German American Chamber of Commerce
  • United Nations
  • European Center for Development
  • Africa Clean Energy
  • European Parliament
  • Amnesty International
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Olympic Committee
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • GIZ (Main German Development Organisation)
FASOS Graduation

Career prospects

You will have a wide array of career paths to choose from, including:

  • Working in the development sector in NGOs, and other similar organisations, as a researcher, project manager, board member, strategist, awareness campaigner, fundraiser or lobbyist
  • Joining the public sector in government agencies as a policy maker, analyst, researcher or project developer
  • Entering the private sector as a consultant on developmental impacts
  • Working in the media, as a reporter, copywriter or press officer, a think tank
  • Entering a think tank or into academia, as a researcher or PhD candidate

Some examples of positions our graduates ended up in:

  • Journalist, Axel Springer
  • Marketing and Communications Officer, Africa Clean Energy
  • Policy Officer, European Centre for Development
  • Project Coordinator, Hand in Hand International
  • Independent Consultant, RAIN Foundation
  • Communications Trainee, Global Off-Grid Lighting Association
  • Research Intern, Institute for Development and Peace
FASOS graduation