Public Service MBA - International Stream
(IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
Accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) this programme targets the specific challenges of managing and working within public, donor and voluntary organisations in developing and transitional countries.

Focusing on contemporary international case studies, issues and research, the programme provides students with a global outlook on modern management.

Professional Tailored Training
(IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
IDD has been successfully providing high-level training workshops and seminars for development professionals for over 40 years.  This knowledge and applied experience feeds into the production of all professional development programmes creating courses that are experiential, challenging and interactive, bridging academic theory and the real world of practice.

PhD with Integrated Study in International Development
(IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
Studying for a doctoral degree with IDD means being part of an active research and practitioner community that will support you in accomplishing your academic goals.

The Phd with Integrated Study has been developed to provide a new route to the internationally respected British PhD degree by incorporating subject knowledge, research training and the development of transferable skills  While the traditional PhD programme requires students to engage entirely in research training, culminating in the production of a thesis, the PhD with Integrated Study enables students to gain added value from taught, subject based modules.  The taught moduels allow students to broaden, as well as deepen, their subject knowledge at the same time as undertaking their own research and developing transferable professional skills in preparation for careers as professional educators, researchers or senior positions in public and private sector organisations.

PhD (IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
Studying for a doctorate with IDD means being part of an active research and practitioner community that will support you in accomplishing your academic goals.

All students studying for a doctoral degree pursue their own original research, under the guidance of a supervisor.  This freedom is often attractive to people planning a career in academic or training institutions or who aim to work in policy planning units of public sector agencies.  Each student is assigned a supervisor and is also supported by two other academic staff members as co-supervisors.

Students are assigned their own study space and computer in the department.

Masters Degrees
(IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
IDD has designed its postgraduate courses to meet the requirements of every prospective or current employee in the development sector.  However each course allows the choice of optional modules, giving students the ability to customise their chosen course further.   From 2006 we are offering a greater choice of MScs and an MA.

Graduate Diploma programmes
(IDD, University of Birmingham)
Training Provider: University of Birmingham
IDD has designed its Graduate Diploma programmes to meet the requirements of every prospective or current employee in the development sector.  However each course allows the choice of optional modules, giving students the ability to customise their chosen course further.   From 2006-7 we are offerering nine Graduate Diploma programmes.

The Graduate Diploma provides entry for applicants without the required qualifications for the direct entry onto a Masters Course.  Graduate Diploma students, who consistently perform well, may be transferred to the Masters programme and proceed to complete a dissertation withing the same academic year.  Interm qualifications at Masters level may also be awarded.  These are the Postgraduate Diploma and the Postgraduate Certificate.