MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMMES

ISGG’s 2-year online Master’s degree programmes (60 credit hours, 120 ECTS credits) consist of at least 12 courses, each of 45 hours’ duration (video-recorded lectures [20 hours], interactive online sessions between students and the professor in charge [20 hours], final exams [5 hours]), grouped into 2 categories : core requirements and specialized courses, supplemented by research, a collective exercise and optional internship.

They are offered from September 2023 in the following subject-matter areas :

• Risk & Disaster Management

• International Trade, Governance & Development

In order to earn the 60 credit-hours/120 ECTS credits allotted, students are required to take at least eight of the ten “core” courses available, and four “specialized” courses in one of the areas of concentration offered, for a minimum tuition time of 540 taught hours in total over two years.

Most Master’s courses are offered in English : only two “core” and one “specialized” courses are taught in French. As befits a bilingual school catering for the needs of future international careers, ISGG encourages (but does not mandate) English-speaking students to take at least one course in the second language available.

The academic year starts in early September and extends until late July. Teaching is delivered over three terms of 12 weeks each every year, in the form of multimedia lectures and online interaction. ISGG expects students to devote at least 2 hours of personal study for each taught hour.

Other assignments or offerings include (1) an initiation-to-research assignment giving rise to the defence of a  75 page Master’s thesis, using either English or French, on a subject related to their chosen area of concentration, and (2) a one-week joint Integrated Policy Exercise, conducted electronically in late June of the programme’s final academic year. An optional internship in a Geneva-based international organization is offered for a modest fee (subject to availability) in between terms during the two-year programme, or upon its completion.