MA International Social Work with Community Development: University of East London

About the programme

This MA offers an opportunity for qualified social workers or community development workers to share in learning about social work and community development across the globe. Participants are part of a multicultural peer group recruited from both countries around the world and locally.

Career opportunities

A qualification at master’s level is normally essential for people seeking employment in international welfare and humanitarian organisations, including the United Nations and major non-governmental organisations. Graduates of this MA have taken up a variety of social work or community development posts in the UK or their country of origin, as well as in NGOs. Examples of subsequent employment include: work in a UN resettlement programme; as a social-work lecturer with special interest in development of mental health services in Bangladesh; as a manager of a social care unit in Greece; and as a social worker with asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The award also lays the basis for progression to further research, which may be either agency based or through a PhD, or onto a professional doctorate.

Admission requirments

Applicants must be graduates who have a professional qualification either in social work or in community development.

In the case of applicants whose first language is not English, then IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent) is required. International qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education postgraduate programmes.

Students who apply to enter stages of the programme may be admitted through normal Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes, or through an approved articulation agreement.