Human Rights and Multi-level Governance

Study location	Italy, Padua
Type	Master's degree, full-time
Nominal duration	2 years (120 ECTS)
Study language	English
Awards	(Master of Arts in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance)
Course code	EP2894/000ZZ/2025

Tuition fee	€2,642 per year For further information please visit: www.unipd.it/en/tuition-fees
Application fee	€30 one-time This fee is non-refundable.
Deposit	€205 one-time In order to accept your place at the University of Padua, the payment of the admission fee is required. This fee is non-refundable.

Entry qualification

Bachelor diploma (or equivalent) A minimum three-year undergraduate degree (or equivalent) is required, with proven skills in Political Sciences, International Relations, Sociology and International Law. Additional entry requirements – Entry title and GPA Please verify country-based specific entry title and GPA requirements at the following link. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university. If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage.

Language requirements	English B2 Level (CEFR) or equivalent Please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions

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Overview

The Master’s degree aims at developing a universal culture of human rights. With a strong policy and action-oriented approach, where research and lecturing activities reflect the transnational and transcultural dimensions of human rights studies, it provides professional knowledge and skills to promote and guarantee the respect of human rights. Human rights law, multi-level governance of human sustainable development and security are conceptual paradigms of reference throughout the
programme.

Programme structure

1st Year: International Law of Human Rights; Human Rights in International Politics; Constitutional Development and Democratisation; History of International Organisations/International History of the Balkans/International History of the Middle East; Economic Globalization and Human Rights/Statistics for Social Science; International Cooperation and Humanitarian Response Operations/Global South and Decolonial Option/Refugee Human Rights Protection; Langue Française et Droits de l’Homme/Lengua Española y Derechos Humanos/Italian as a Second Language.

2nd Year: Social and Financial Sustainability for Small Business/Economics of Inequality; Culture, Society and Human Rights/Religions and Human Rights; Regional Human Rights Systems/European Union Law and Human Rights; Women’s Human Rights/Children’s Rights/Human Rights and Politcal Participation; Human Rights and International Justice/Human Rights Practice/Labour and Global Social Justice/Work, Migration and Globalization/History of Genocides; Internship.

Career opportunities

Graduates work as human rights officers, as researchers and policy planners in international, national and nongovernmental organisations, in the diplomatic service, in the public sector, in trade unions or political parties; as project managers and field officers of humanitarian aid; as journalists; as experts of social responsibility units and international relations departments within corporate organisations.