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The University of Edinburgh: Public Policy

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Social and Political Science
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Taught

Summary

Our MSc Public Policy programme is theory-led, empirically-informed and practice-oriented.

With a particular focus on the social and economic policy fields that are at the heart of modern welfare states the programme is geared to development of critical, creative thinking about public policy and the challenges presented by the scope and complexity of a range of issues across multiple policy sectors.

The programme facilitates exploration of how policy makers interpret, experience and respond to various socio-economic and political problems at local, national, and international levels; and consideration of the organisational resources, both governmental and non-governmental, which might be mobilised to address them.

To this end the programme draws on an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of public policy, informed by insights from

  • social policy

  • politics

  • sociology

  • economics

We aim to enable you to:

  • acquire policy relevant skills in the acquisition and sophisticated use of information

  • be able to articulate and warrant a given understanding or position

  • know how to contribute to a collective strategic project

Our teaching is grounded in contemporary policy concerns, and our students get to connect cutting-edge social and political science with the challenges of governing.

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Edinburgh University

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 34th in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research …

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