Partner MDP Institutions

BRAC
BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University
BRAC Development Institute (BDI) of BRAC University offers a full-time, cross-disciplinary program leading to the Masters in Development Management and Practice (MDMP). Funding from the MacArthur Foundation allows BDI to merge its existing curriculum with the resources of the Global MDP Network so as to forge an integrated, interdisciplinary course of study.
CATIE
CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza)
The Master's of Science in Development Practice (MDP) is a program of 24 consecutive months in the graduate school at CATIE in Costa Rica. The first 18 months are dedicated to full-time study and residence on the CATIE campus in Turrialba, Costa Rica.
Columbia University's Low Library
Columbia University
The Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MPA-DP) trains current and aspiring practitioners to develop, implement and manage integrated approaches to development challenges.  The MPA-DP combines technical knowledge in the major areas of development with the management, problem solving, communication and analytical skills to connect across disciplines and sectors to addre
Emory University
Emory University
The Master's in Development Practice (MDP) is a full two-year program of 50 credits, including 12 core courses, 4 electives, and 2 consecutive summers (20 weeks) of experience working as “embedded” practitioners within leading humanitarian organizations in developing countries.
James Cook University
James Cook University
The Master of Development Practice (MDP) is a program of 48 credits that are typically completed in two years but may be distributed over a maximum of four. Graduates gain competence in a broad range of development issues and are equipped to influence policies and programs in developing countries in Asia, the Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lund University
Lund University´s Master of Science in International Development and Management (LUMID) is a 2-year interdisciplinary and international programme for students who wish to further a career in international development cooperation or to pursue an academic career in that field.
Sciences Po
The Global Master's in Development Practice (MDP) is a two-year program offered through the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, more commonly known as Sciences Po. Directed towards young professionals with substantial work experience, the program endows students with the substantive knowledge required to analyze and address cross-se
Trinity College Dublin
TCD and UCD, Dublin
The Masters in Development Practice (MDP) is a two-year program offered jointly by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD). Most course modules are categorized according to each of the Global MDP Program's four pillars—health, natural, social, and management sciences.
TERI University
TERI University
The Master's in Sustainable Development Practice, seeks to address a critical gap in sustainable development education in South Asia, a region where such capacity creation is most required.
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
The Master of Public Administration in International Development (MID), a two-year program of 45 credits at the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) at Tsinghua University, is designed to prepare students for careers as active global citizens and to enhance their understanding of China’s development experience.
Uni Andes
Universidad de Los Andes
Los Andes University’s Master of Development Management and Practice (MDP) is an interdisciplinary program that seeks to prepare the directors and leaders of private, public, multilateral, third sector, and community organizations dedicated to designing, implementing, and managing development projects.  The Program’s goal is to offer management tools and skills that allow these
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
The Master's of Science in Sustainable Development Practice at Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) is a program of 24 consecutive months aimed at the integration between the different agents working for the practice of sustainable development.
UCAD
Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD)
The Master's in Development Practice (MDP) at the Faculty of Economics and Management (FASEG) at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) is a two-year program, conducted in French and English, with special emphasis on West Africa. Each incoming class is limited to 30 students, including up to ten professionals with significant prior experience as development practitioners.
University of Arizona
For many years, faculty and students at the University of Arizona have dedicated themselves to reducing the grinding impacts of global poverty, to defining the pathways to enhanced well-being for the under-resourced and unlucky, to advancing the urgent need for social and economic justice, and to raising the awareness of basic human rights.
University of Botswana
University of Botswana
The Master's in Development Practice (MDP) at UB is a rigorous cross-disciplinary program of 125 credits.
Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The Master’s of Development Practice (MDP) at the College of Natural Resources of the University of California, Berkeley, is a two-year program that will be launched in August 2012. Courses that will be offered include, for example, Climate Change and Energy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Marketing and Innovation, and Law, Politics, and Policymaking.
University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida (UF) Master of Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) Program is administered by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for African Studies.
University of Ibadan
University of Ibadan
The Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Ibadan offers the Master of Development Practice (MDP) as a two-year program with an emphasis on Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) program is jointly administered by the Humphrey School and Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) and spans several academic units across the University of Minnesota. The MDP curriculum, typically completed in two years, includes 50 credit hours of coursework focusing on sustainable livelihood stra
University of Peradeniya
University of Peradeniya
The Master in Development Practice (MDP) in the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Peradeniya is a two-year program with an emphasis on South Asia, the sustainable development of tropical coastal areas and small islands, and climate change and the reduction and management of related risks.
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) building on UW campus
University of Waterloo
The Master of Development Practice (MDP) is a full-time professional program offered by the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) and is aimed at producing graduates with a set of practical skills and functional forms of knowledge in the interrelated areas of 
University of Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg
The Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) is an interdisciplinary graduate degree that equips a new generation of development practitioners with the broad knowledge and practical skills needed to understand and respond to complex development challenges.