StudyQA — Master: Dutch Studies: Dutch Language, Culture and Society

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This specialisation is designed to prepare students to conduct independent research on core themes of public administration.

This two-year research programme offers a strong training in the core academic issues relevant to public administration but also includes extensive work in research methods. Students of this programme will be trained to engage in international academic and applied debate on key issues in public administration by independently formulating, conducting, and assessing scientific research at a level that is sufficient for publication in scholarly journals.

The MPhil Programme starts in September and covers two years. Courses are offered during two semesters: September-January and February-June.

This programme is designed to prepare students to conduct independent research on core themes of public administration. This is not an applied curriculum like that found in many Master´s programmes in Public Administration. Rather, the Leidenprogramme emphasises both strong training in the core academic issues confronting public administration and, especially, extensive work in research methods.

Graduates of the programme should be more than informed consumers of research, critically evaluating the work of others. Rather, we expect our graduates to engage in international academic and applied debates over issues of core concern to public administration by independently formulating, performing, and assessing scientific research at a level that is sufficient for publication in scholarly journals.

This programme has a workload of 120 ECTS.

Language requirements: * IELTS overall band: 7.5 * TOEFL paper based: 625 * TOEFL computer based: 263 * TOEFL internet based: 106Students can apply for the research master's programme on the basis of * BA (or MA) in Public Administration from a Dutch University, an EAPAA-accredited University in Europe, or a BA (or MA) in a closely related field.The admission committee consists of three full time professors, who will assess a candidate´s knowledge of research methods and skills, motivation and ambition, general level of performance in academic work, and proficiency in the English language. Concretely this entails the following additional criteria: * Training in methods and techniques of social science research and statistics at the BA level should minimally accounts for 14 ECTS credits * Research skills, having completed the research cycle independently or in a small group * Average academic performance at BA (or MA) level of 7.5 or above in the Dutch grading system (or equivalent in other grading systems) * Motivation for conducting research in public administrationDemonstrable affinity with knowledge of an area of research in the programme, as evidenced by for instance a BA (or MA) thesis relating to that area or by a comparable paper in which relevant literature and research is discussed. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 7.5 TOEFL paper-based test score : 625 TOEFL iBT® test: 106