Join our global community
Currently we have students of over 60 nationalities studying at IDS. Students and alumni are members of the IDS community, a truly global network that enriches the curriculum experience and provides lifelong professional networks and friendships.
Learning from a wide diversity of international perspectives
You’ll join an international cohort of learners, participating in seminars, lectures and workshops, and engaging in lots of discussions to ask questions, challenge ideas, contrast examples, draw on new wisdoms,
and seek to find ways of promoting equality and social justice.
Our course convenors and instructors are active researchers and aim to enhance the learning experience by bringing their applied knowledge and experiences of working in development, or ‘the field’, into the classroom.
A growing worldwide network
When you study at IDS you become part of a worldwide network that links thousands of alumni (working in 100-plus countries) and hundreds of current and former staff committed to improving lives. Find out how you can get involved and change lives with your IDS alumni network and IDS Alumni Ambassadors.