Capacity Development and Extension MSc Program

The M.Sc. degree in Capacity Development and Extension is designed for qualified graduates from a wide variety of disciplines. This two-year program prepares students for research and practice in rural development in Northern and Southern countries with an interdisciplinary, comparative, and global perspective. It acknowledges a world that is a global, interdependent village with persisting inequalities in wealth and power, where the interaction between the human and the ecological are of increasing concern. The program strengthens students' knowledge and skills in a range of subject areas critical to rural development -- to conceptualise, build theory, design, plan, implement, management, and evaluate rural contexts, policies, programs, and projects. Students learn to act effectively at the local level with an understanding of how the local and the global interact.