The MSc in International Public Policy at Queen’s offers a high-quality program of academic and personal development, which provides students with the tools to understand and influence the contemporary policy problems faced by governments globally.

Students undertaking the MSc program will engage with a wide variety of theories and concepts in the study of public policy both domestically and internationally, and will be exposed to a variety of research methods. As they progress through the MSc program, students can choose to examine public policy issues across a range of international policy domains including: climate change, global ethics, security and terrorism, policing and crime, and EU governance, and write a supervised dissertation on a public policy theme of their choosing.