The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) is offered by an international consortium of five high-profile European participating universities and partner universities worldwide. It provides excellent training for future careers, both inside and outside academia, equipping experts to analyse and navigate globalisation processes from multiple perspectives. Our graduates are well prepared for academic positions in Global Studies and related disciplines that address global phenomena, as well as for jobs in supranational agencies and non-governmental organisations. They are ready to work as intercultural mediators across development cooperation, the economy, management, and beyond, while contributing to pioneering scholarship on understanding the past, investigating the present, and debating the future of the global.
Since its establishment in 2005, the EMGS Consortium – at the time including the founding members: Leipzig University, the University of Vienna, the University of Wrocław, and the London School of Economics and Political Science – has received funding from the European Commission through the Erasmus Mundus programme. Erasmus Mundus offers attractive scholarships for both non-European and European EMGS students. Additionally, the participating universities have continued to offer substantial fee waivers to excellent candidates. Roskilde University and Ghent University joined the EMGS Consortium in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Starting with the 2023 intake, the London School of Economics and Political Science is no longer part of the consortium.
The EMGS partners with several non-European universities: Dalhousie University (Canada), Macquarie University (Australia), the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Fudan University (China), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). These partnerships provide our students with exceptional opportunities to study transregional connectedness and global concerns for one term at any of these renowned research and teaching institutions. In 2012, the EMGS programme launched with Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), a bilateral master’s programme emphasising peace and security in Africa within the Global Studies perspective (see the IPSS programme website for further information). Since 2018, the universities of Otago (New Zealand) and Yaoundé I (Cameroon) joined the many strong partnerships fostered by the EMGS.
