Politics

Entry requirements

• Bachelors (Honours) degree (or overseas equivalent) at 2:1 level or above in a cognate subject; and
• Master's degree at 65% overall average with minimum 65% in dissertation and with no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent).

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

Our Politics PhD programme is a three-year (full-time) or six-year (part-time) course of study that enables you to carry out a piece of in-depth research in the area that most interests you.

You will benefit from a global reputation, lively PhD student body, multiple research seminar series, and expertise in a diverse set of areas of politics grouped in our five research clusters. Politics is the biggest post-graduate community in our School and we welcome students from all around the world, forming a vibrant community both socially and academically.

Politics at the University of Manchester is one of the top politics departments in the country, and in the top fifty; globally. This offers many career opportunities for our PhD students, such as:

• Networking, internally and externally;

• Support for diverse research methods and approaches;

• Overseas and fieldwork visits;

• Internships, and;

• Career development.