The Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Master's Program in Development Studies is a study program that provides education on knowledge and skills in analyzing the complexity of development, preparing development programs, and determining integrated and regional-based policies.

Accompanied by the best teaching staff with extensive experience, the Master's Program in Development Studies has a solid goal of producing graduates who have the ability and mastery of development theories that can be applied to examine development problems that affect humans, social, economic, and political sectors in local, national, regional, or international scope. Our graduates have broad career prospects as experts in government and private institutions.