In order to enrol in the ILSPSD, applicants need to have successfully completed an undergraduate degree (a minimum of 180 ECTS – within the European Higher Education Area – or its equivalent) from a fully accredited institution of higher education (within or outside the EHEA), provided that this undergraduate degree grants access to master’s level studies in the country in which the undergraduate degree diploma was issued.
If you have completed your studies outside the ECTS area, your workload must be converted.
1 ECTS credit equals 25 to 30 total study hours, including courses, self-study, and exams. A full academic year (60 ECTS) is 1500 to 1800 hours; a semester is 30 ECTS (or approximately 40 hours per week) for a full-time student.
If it is not included in your transcript of records, you need to ask your degree awarding institution for a written statement of the working hours needed for accomplishing each of your courses. Please upload this statement and your conversion calculations (by using the formula [credit hours per week (in class + self-study)] x [weeks per semester] / 25 = ECTS) together with your diploma and transcript.
If you haven’t completed your undergraduate degree by the time of your application but will do so within the year of the intake, you can be admitted conditionally. In this case you will need to upload an official transcript of records of your degree issuing university stating that you will be able to finish your degree in the year of the start of your studies and will be able to hand in the official degree certificate before 31 August of that year.
Applicants must have successfully completed 60 ECTS in relevant subjects, of which at least 30 ECTS must have been acquired in law.
Applicants must have successfully completed 60 ECTS in relevant subjects.
Relevant subjects include law, political science, international relations and related fields in the social sciences such as European studies, war and security studies, sociology, political economics and human geography. Please note that the fulfilment of entry requirements will be checked following submission of applications. We cannot provide detailed pre-checks of entry requirements on an individual basis.
Additionally, there are entry requirements based on the study track chosen by the student for Semester 3:
Applicants whose first language is not English and whose undergraduate degree studies were not completed in English language must achieve the minimum English language proficiency level for admission. The proficiency level can only be confirmed with one of these language tests:
All language test results must be no more than 4 years old of the application submission.
It is NOT possible to submit your language test after the lapse of the official application deadline.
In the following two cases, no language test is required:
No exceptions will be made and emails asking for exemptions will not be answered.
If students choose the University of Glasgow for their second year of study, they are required to confirm their English language proficiency level with IELTS 7.0 (with no subset less than 6.5) or equivalent (if English is not their first language or they did not study their undergraduate degree (or a masters degree of at least 9 months) in an English speaking country, as recognised by the UK Home Office).
If students choose Université libre de Bruxelles for their second year of study, they are required to submit a certificate proving a passive level of French:
Students applying to the Glasgow study track should be aware that, if they intend to apply for a UK Student Visa, their English Language proficiency test must be dated within 2 years and 5 months of the programme start date (1 October at Leuphana University of Lüneburg).
Please note that the fulfilment of entry requirements will be checked following submission of applications.
We cannot provide detailed pre-checks of entry requirements on an individual basis.
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in International Law of Security, Peace and Sustainable Development are now open.
You can apply for a study place and an Erasmus Mundus scholarship or as a self-funded student!
Scholarship applications for the 2026 intake are open until 1 February 2026 (23:59 CET)