Fletcher's interdisciplinary curriculum provides both the fundamental knowledge and practical skills students need to enhance their careers in international relations. Students choose courses to suit their academic and professional goals from each of the three divisions : International Law and Organizations; Diplomacy, History and Politics; and Economics and International Business.
The MA’s breadth requirement (one course from each division) lends structure and interdisciplinary thinking to the MA program. Individual students freely choose the courses to meet the breadth requirement as well as the remaining courses needed to complete the program. This high degree of flexibility allows students to select courses that match their own functional and/or regional interests so students can design a program suited to their own specific academic and professional goals.
While none of the following options are required, students may further tailor their MA studies in the following ways:
- Cross-registration at the graduate and professional schools at Tufts and Harvard Universities.
- Completing a field of study.
- Completing the Diplomatic Studies Certificate.
Graduation requirements:
- Pass 8 semester courses.
- Complete the breadth requirement by taking one course in each of the three divisions.
- Complete the foreign language requirement.
- Submit a satisfactory MA thesis.
- Pass an oral examination in the subject area of the MA thesis.