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Our new BSc in Global Development is open for 2023 and 2024 entry.

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GDI is the UK's largest university-based postgraduate centre specialising in international development.

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The Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College is the first of its kind to focus on postgraduate research in international development.

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The Global Development Institute is where critical thinking meets social justice.

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