Master of Development Studies

Development Studies career outcomes

The Master of Development Studies have a global reach and enables you to pursue a role with purpose and real-world impact. Graduates develop highly transferable skills to navigate complexity, ethics, power, inequality and social change.

As an internationally recognised qualification, you'll have a head start pursuing roles including:

• General, project or program manager
• Development consultant
• Policy advisor
• Humanitarian Coordinator
• Researcher
• Sector Specialist - in specific fields such as Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), Community Development, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation or Child Protection
• Technical specialist - such as in Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Advocacy and Campaigns, Communications and Marketing or Grants and Fundraising

Graduates have also gone on to work for governments and in organisations across the world, including:

• UNESCO
• Red Cross
• Oxfam
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• UN Women
• Save the Children
• Consular Corps
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• The Asia Foundation
• WRI Indonesia
• Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
• ASEAN Secretariat