According to International Students Office of Beijing Normal University (BNU), MA in Development Studies, one entirely English taught program was set up in 2010.

The MA Program in Development Studies aims at fulfilling the educational goal of training future policymakers, scholars, and practitioners on social development and public policy. The program is run by the BNU’s School of Social Development and Public Policy (SSDPP), a top social policy school in China, and supported by the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, an internationally well-known center of development studies.

The program is concerned with exploring development practice from a global comparative perspective while looking at the specific development experience of China through a historical and analytical lens. Combining textbook theories and field practice into a coherent training whole, the program aims at developing the theoretical frameworks of students, broaden their analytical powers, and enhance their practical skills.

The program is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to development studies and draws upon teaching and research from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, geography and public policy. While covering a broad range of development subjects, the program puts special focus to the making and reforming of social policies on welfare, public health, education, migration, civil society, sustainable development, and similar areas of public policy. The courses introduce the China experience within an international context and train students to tailor the global experiences to the particular situation in their own nations.

The program is designed for those who have professional development work experience and wish to reflect on that experience through an intellectually challenging curriculum, but it will also serve well trained students who have an undergraduate degree, usually in social sciences, and wish to broaden and deepen their knowledge of contemporary development thinking and strengthen their practical skills. On average 15 students are admitted to the program each year.

All courses are taught in English by top Chinese and foreign scholars of development studies, and by high-level Chinese policymakers in the relevant fields. The program combines classroom lectures with field visits and internships in order to help students apply classroom knowledge in the real world environment. Based in Beijing, the nerve center of the largest developing nation in the world, and well known for its rigorous and high-caliber education, BNU is one of the best places for students interested in studying international development and the Chinese practice thereof.

Thus, applicants who are interested in this program can find more detail course information at
http://school.cucas.edu.cn/HomePage/27/2010-05-31/Program_24637.shtml