Master of Philosophy Arts and Social Sciences

UNSW's Master of Philosophy in Arts and Social Sciences offers interdisciplinary research training built for twenty-first-century researchers and leaders, combining three compulsory courses, a common foundational course, a specialisation-specific course and a discipline-specific course, with a 25,000-word research thesis supervised by academic experts. Rather than following traditional academic majors, the specialisations align closely with the faculty's actual research strengths, staff expertise and the employment market, giving students a genuinely current grounding in contemporary problems from cross-disciplinary perspectives. It particularly suits people with an undergraduate degree who want to return from the workforce and develop research skills, with successful completion potentially qualifying graduates for doctoral-level research admission. It works well for career-changers moving into research-oriented roles as well as those testing whether doctoral study suits them before committing to a full PhD.