International Relations with Foundation Year
Keele UniversityA-Level Entry
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UCAS Points
40 points
Avg. Graduate Salary
£23,000
About this course
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.
International Students
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/
International Relations
Are you intrigued by how politics shapes our everyday lives? The influence of power and global affairs? International Relations at Keele covers world politics and the challenges associated with global order. Our wide-reaching expertise and our broad approach to the discipline will teach you how to interpret global, social, political, and economic interactions. Develop your skills and expertise and become a change maker for future generations. A degree in International Relations from Keele prepares you for a career of your choice in politics, business and beyond.
Why choose this course?
Explore how global relationships impact everyday lives and how the international order is being challenged and redefined. Studying International Relations at Keele explores the complexities of world politics, examining personal, local, and global aspects of power, order, conflict, violence, and justice.
Our aim is to develop your expertise as a critical thinker, with insights into contemporary challenges, preparing you to become a future change maker. You'll study the politics and international relations of the West as well as the global majority world, investigating critical issues ranging from power and inequality, to race and decolonisation, environmental change, security and conflict, foreign policy, gender, activism, war and more.
Our curriculum is designed to be engaging and interactive, with opportunities to put theory into practice in real-world applications including crisis simulations.
About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.
We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.
Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.
Entry Requirements
Career Prospects
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Course Details
- Qualification
- Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
- Study Mode
- Full-time including foundation year
- Duration
- 4 Years
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Keele
- Scheme
- Undergraduate
- Subjects
- Politics
- Avg. Graduate Salary
- £23,000