Hi everyone!

I am a recent college graduate (co ‘25) with a degree in Public Policy (non-quantitative background). I’ve been working for the past year in a non-intldev role, however, I am planning on applying to both law and grad school this fall. My question mainly pertains to graduate programs, but any and all comments are welcome.

I am ideally hoping to study outside of the US for grad school (lower comparative costs + more intl experience/networking). Additionally, I want to find a program that has a quantitative analysis component that would set me up well for a job in the development field. Currently, I feel like that is what I am lacking, so I feel nervous taking out loans for another qualitative degree that wouldn’t give me an edge when actually looking for a job. I am wondering if anyone knows of or has had experience with graduate programs where you can enter with minimal/ no quantitative prerequisites and come out prepared?

As a side note, I understand the whole argument towards learning these skills on your own, but I think there’s value in education and network. Additionally, after work I have been spending close to every night studying for the LSAT, so I don’t really have that much capacity these days before the end of the year to take on more. As a second note, I am applying to both law and grad school because I am genuinely interested in both and also to diversify my options since applications have been such a gamble.

I would love to hear any thoughts on the direction that I’m going in, recommendations of programs, and your experiences studying the same topics! Thanks!

I recently interviewed for a role and felt quite positive after the interview (overall thought it went well and the panellists liked me / connected with me). I received a call from their HR recruiter a few days later telling me that unfortunately I had not been selected for the role at this occasion and the feedback they gave was quite negative/does not seem to align with how I thought the interview went or even my experience (e.g. they said that I did not have extensive stakeholder mgmt experience when all my career has been about stakeholder engagement and the role did not have that as a priority either).

My question is, might this be a mix up? Is it possible that this was perhaps meant for someone else who interviewed for the role or could it be by mistake? Is it possible?

Dear All,

I am considering applying for an African based role at the Tony Blair Institute.

So far I did not have any overlap in my work with TBI and would be highly interested to get real insights into their work in Africa.

Does anyone here have or had experience working for TBI? I am particularly interested in working environment, organizational culture and conditions.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hi all, New subber here.

Came here to gather more information on what Grads and current students like/don't about your International Development masters and if you are a grad where are you working/ your role and if you are a student where would you like to work/role?

Coming from a Cultural Psychology MSc background I am keen to go back to study and work for NGO's in ID that tackle big problems the world is facing. I have been reading on this sub that this field is dead, but even so I am still interested to here your experiences.

grateful for your comments.