Deadline:
February 04, 2025
Location(s)
Austria Netherlands Spain United Kingdom
Vienna, Rotterdam, Barcelona, York
Overview
Mundus MAPP is an internationally recognized European leader in Policy Studies. It offers an interdisciplinary curriculum delivered by four outstanding European universities. Flexible choice of study tracks, practice components, highly diverse international student body, academic excellence applied to contemporary policy problems – this is Mundus MAPP.
Details
Mundus MAPP is a full-time in-person program which is unique in the flexibility with which students can tailor their learning experiences to their individual needs through the selection of mobility tracks. Mobility tracks in the joint degree each allow for a different focus – Political Economy and Development, Governance and Development, Global Public Policy and European Public Policy – while maintaining a uniform core of policy studies subjects. Students are exposed to a variety of European academic traditions and policy contexts through the study visits and internships. Moreover, all mobility tracks include exposure to either development studies or to a careful consideration of the impact of economic and democratic transition, rather than merely the experience of Western European or North American countries.
The ability to “mix and match” first and second year institutions (the mobility component) thus allows students to build up a specialisation within Mundus MAPP that is most suited to their individual career objectives. Each of the track-specific core course blocks complement the general core courses where students acquire common theoretical grounding in policy studies but provide somewhat different disciplinary perspectives. For detailed information on the structure of the program and course descriptions click here.
Mundus MAPP includes a strong practice component, represented by the internship, the spring course/study-trip and pedagogical methods such as the use of case studies in the classroom. This is designed to allow students to observe the real world of policy-making, interact with practitioners, apply theoretical knowledge to practical policy problems, collect empirical (case study) material for research projects and theses, and build up professional contacts and networks that will facilitate their integration into the job-market.
Degrees & accreditation
Students successfully completing the program will receive a Master of Arts in Public Policy jointly awarded by the two consortium institutions they attend, as well as a diploma supplement. The MA degree is recognized by the appropriate bodies in Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. In addition, the CEU tracks of the Mundus MAPP program will also receive a US-accredited degree, since the CEU tracks of the program fulfil the requirements for CEU’s Master of Arts degree in Public Policy, registered with the New York State Education Department in the US.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Mundus MAPP is open to both European and third country national students. Scholarships are provided for the best eligible applicants by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, as well as by the Consortium institutions.
Minimum requirements are:
1) Educational background
For all tracks of the program, candidates need to have a Bachelors degree (completed at least three years of undergraduate study - normally at least Second Class).
Further, for CEU tracks (CEU-York and CEU-IBEI) only Bachelors degrees in the Social Sciences and some disciplines in the Arts and Humanities are eligible. Specifically:
- Bachelors degrees are automatically fully accepted in the following fields: International Studies (incl. International Relations), Political Science, Sociology, Social Studies; Administration Management, International Administration; Applied Economics, Economic Analysis, Public Service.
- Bachelors degrees are fully automatically accepted, provided that the candidate has at least half a year’s professional or research experience, in the following fields: any other field of the Social Sciences; Legal and Administration Sciences; Economics; National Defense and Military field and Security studies.
- Other Bachelors degrees in the Arts and Humanities may be accepted on a case-by-case basis, if the Consortium’s admissions evaluators can verify from the submitted transcripts that the applicant has followed courses and/or has done research in the fields listed above.
The fields above are defined broadly, national equivalent degrees or specialized degrees of the above fields (e.g. political economy or international political economy, regional and environmental economics, social policy etc.) are eligible. If you have questions about the eligibility of your degree please contact the consortium.
Candidates with Natural Science or Engineering degrees are not eligible for any of the tracks.
2) High motivation and interest in European and international public policy
3) Work experience - Applicants with relevant work experience (internships, jobs) will be ranked higher.
4) Fluency in English
Mundus MAPP does not require a language certificate from applicants from the following countries, provided that they have received a Bachelor's or Master's degree taught exclusively in English:
- Australia, Botswana, Canada, Gambia, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia,
- Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda (English-speaking region), South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, UK, USA and Zambia
Applicants from countries other than these may request a waiver from the English language admissions requirement if they completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree taught exclusively in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland.
All other applicants will need to provide evidence of their English language skills with any one of the following test scores:
- TOEFL (Paper version; taken within two years of the application deadline) 580 or above;
- TOEFL (Internet version; taken within two years of the application deadline) 92 or above;
- IELTS – Academic (taken within two years of the application deadline) 6.5 or above;
- Cambridge Proficiency Examination (taken within 5 years of the application deadline) C or above;
- Cambridge Advanced English Test (taken within 5 years of the application deadline) B or above.
5) Other
Although Spanish is no longer a requirement for mobility tracks involving IBEI, basic knowledge of Spanish is recommended as some electives will only be available in Spanish.
Enquiries may be sent to the central email address of the Consortium, mundusmapp [at] ceu [dot] edu.
Dates
Deadline: February 04, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
The Mundus MAPP Consortium has been supported by the Erasmus + action of the European Union. The Erasmus Mundus (EMJM) scholarship will be offered to outstanding applicants from both within and outside the EU.
Details of the EMJM scholarship:
A limited number of EMJM scholarships are awarded to the highest-ranked applicants for the duration of the programme (24 months). The EMJM scholarship is calculated on the basis of a monthly unit cost of 1400 EUR/month which corresponds to a maximum scholarship amount of 33 600 Euros (24 months). This 1400 EUR monthly contribution assists students in covering travel, visa, installation and subsistence costs, and any other costs. EMJM scholarship recipients receive a full tuition-fee waiver.
Additional financial support is available for students with individual needs depending on the level of disability/support needed.
An EMJM scholarship holder cannot benefit from another EU funded scholarship scheme to follow the same (or another) EMJM master course (for the entire period of enrollment in the course).
Those who have already benefitted from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Scholarship (EMJM) are not eligible to apply for additional EMJM scholarship.
Mundus MAPP applicants do not need to pay the CEU application fee unless they apply for other CEU programs
Health insurance – in accordance with the EACEA minimum requirements for health insurance – for the duration of the studies (plus 2 weeks prior and 2 months after) is purchased by the Mundus MAPP Consortium for all enrolled students.
Mundus MAPP has three application deadlines:
- February 4, 2025: deadline for applicants who wish to apply for financial aid OR early deadline for self-funded applications
- April 15, 2025: deadline for non-EU/EEA residents who do not wish to apply for financial aid
- July 1, 2025: deadline for EU/EEA residents who do not wish to apply for financial aid
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