Master of Arts in International Studies

The Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) is a two-year programme (120 ECTS) taught in English which provides students the opportunity to study with an interdisciplinary approach and in an international environment. Our MA programme is conceived to offer students the necessary instruments of analysis and understanding of contemporary global dynamics. It focuses on the political, economic, and legal aspects of globalization, human rights, peace and conflict resolution, development, and related environmental issues. Our IS programme combines different disciplinary insights, including history, international relations, international law and organizations, macroeconomics, and financial regulation. It aims to provide students with the necessary epistemic tools to study and approach contemporary international challenges such as sustainability, nuclear proliferation, human security, migration, and gender issues.

The main study areas are: International History, International Relations, International Law, and International Macroeconomics. Moreovere, core courses are supplemented by a wide range of departmental electives, that allow students to develop expertise in their areas of interest. The programme is run by an academic community trained both in Italy and overseas whose research interests and collaboration ensure its members a significant degree of experience and contacts in Europe, Asia, Africa, and both North and South America. Their teaching fully benefits from such cultural and academic backgrounds. Likewise, students can amply profit from the many collaborations our department promotes with research institutes and foreign universities.

MAIS at a Glance

The MAIS program is designed to prepare students for a career in diplomacy, international organizations, NGOs, business, and research. Its core study areas are International History, International Relations, International Macroeconomics, and International Law.

Students can specialise in such topics as: War, Peace, and International security; Area Studies, Constitutional Law, International Finance, Gender Studies, Global History, Multicultural American Literature, Nuclear History, and Sustainability and Economics.

Studying Foreign Languages at Our MAIS

You can also choose to study a variety of languages such as French, German, and Spanish as well as Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.

Our MA program in 'International Studies' is designed to prepare students for a career in diplomacy, international organizations, NGOs, business, and research. It covers core topics like International History, Relations, Macroeconomics, and Law. Students can specialize in such topics as War and Peace, Environmental Policy, Human Rights, and more. In addition to English, it is possible to study Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Our Department of Political Science offers one of Italy's few English-taught MA programs, led by an international academic committee with expertise in diverse disciplines, with regional specializations in European, North and South American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African studies. Conveniently located in Rome's San Paolo district, our Department is easily accessible and near two metro stops. Founded in 1992, Roma Tre University is committed to knowledge development, international research, and values like environmental protection and gender equality.

Our Department of Political Science offers one of Italy's few English-taught MA programs, led by an international academic committee with expertise in diverse disciplines, with regional specializations in European, North and South American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African studies. Conveniently located in Rome's San Paolo district, our Department is easily accessible and near two metro stops. Founded in 1992, Roma Tre University is committed to knowledge development, international research, and values like environmental protection and gender equality.

The Department of Political Science offers the possibility of obtaining a complex and interdisciplinary education that provides a solid basic culture and at the same time opens up multiple perspectives in the world of work. Graduates can achieve complex skills and international projection in different professional sectors, thanks to the articulation in disciplinary areas such as politics, social, historical, economic, and legal. The basic preparation proposed by the first level, a three-year degree then opens up the opportunity to continue to the second level of studies: the two-year Master's Degree.

The main objective of the Department's study courses is to give graduates a solid and broad preparation regarding political processes and international relations in their different contexts and dimensions. In the increasingly connected and complex world in which we live and operate, structured training that is not only cultural and multidisciplinary but also practical and targeted, allows you to prepare yourself originally and creatively to face the challenges of the contemporary world. The present and the political, social, and economic interrelations are the terrain of analysis on which most of the teachings are oriented. Historical and legal knowledge, essential tools for interpreting politics and society, contributes to consolidating these foundations.

History and Values

The Roma Tre University is a young university for young people, it was founded in 1992 and has rapidly grown both in terms of students and study courses offered.

In international rankings, it has an excellent rating, especially among younger universities.

A dynamic, modern, and international University that immediately characterized itself as a vital lever for the urban development of the capital, within which it is now well rooted and of which it has changed its face with a persevering process of renovation and reuse of industrial buildings abandoned, transformed into factories of knowledge and research.

Among the founding values of Roma Tre are the promotion and organization of research at an international level, higher education and the development and dissemination of knowledge, the protection of the environment, international solidarity, the principles of gender equality, and the evaluation and incentive of merit.

Teaching and research, in all disciplinary areas, constantly interact and are aimed at a global world, thus promoting the updating and enrichment of knowledge; combine their action with the third mission, understood both as technological transfer and as projection of training activities on the territory.

The international dimension is an aspect considered strategic for the University which adheres, among other things, to the inspiring principles of the Magna Carta Universitatum and declares its belonging to the European Research and Higher Education Area by espousing its principles and tools.