Bachelor of Arts - International Relations
- 3 years
- Duration
- 6,600 EUR/year
- Price
- Sep 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Budapest / Hungary
- Location
Program description
This curriculum equips you with the skills you need to navigate the myriad political, social, and economic difficulties we confront in an increasingly volatile world. Our programme has a fully global perspective on worldwide political and social issues. It brings together students from all over the world to study and discuss the most critical contemporary political issues from perspectives that represent the diversity of today's world, with courses that reflect the increasingly multicultural and globalised nature of the contemporary world order.
Our graduates have an obvious advantage in our complicated and fast-paced world because of their broad backgrounds in numerous fields ranging from political science to history, law to economics, communication to research and analysis. Our students gain the ability to anticipate the direction in which the world will develop and to capitalise on the opportunities that these changes bring, whether in official interstate relations, international business, or civil society, by being equipped with the knowledge and skills required to understand and apply the inner logic of global relations.
Career opportunities
- Officers and diplomats in the state sector
- Actors in the business sector servicing the needs of actors in global governance
- Analysts in think tanks and policy advisors
- Public administration employees
- NGO and international NGO sector employees
- Officers in international organizations
- Members of transnational advocacy groups
- Employees of transnational private regulators
Program structure
Semester 1
- Social Studies I
- Social Studies I. Project
- Informatics I
- Microeconomics
- Basics of Law
- International Systems in World History
- Diplomacy
- International Protocol and Etiquette
- Start My Brand
- University Seminar
- Frame of optional subjects
Semester 2
- Applied Statistics
- Macroeconomics
- Informatics II
- Social Studies II
- Social Studies II. Project
- History of Modern International Relations
- Global Cultural Anthropology
- Frame of elective subjects - Training (1)
- Frame of optional subjects
Semester 3
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to EU integration
- International Economics
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Academic Writing
- Frame of elective subjects - Training (2)
- Frame of optional subjects
Semester 4
- EU Policies
- Globalization and International Organizations
- Degree thesis forum
- My Brand Portfolio
- Specialization-specific subjects
- Frame of elective subjects - Regional Studies
- China in Regional and World Politics
- Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
- US Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
- Latin America
- The Visegrád Group (V4) and Central-Eastern Europe
- Society and Politics in the Middle East
- Frame of elective subjects - Training (3)
- Frame of optional subjects
Semester 5
- Diplomacy and International Communication specialization
- Security Policy
- Public Diplomacy
- International Ethics
- International Development Cooperation specialization
- Theories of International Development
- Introduction to Public Policy
- Project Management
- Research Methodology for International Relations Degree thesis consultation I.
- International Law
- Specialization-specific subjects
- Frame of elective subjects - Training (4)
- Frame of elective subjects - Regional Studies
- China in Regional and World Politics
- Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
- US Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
- Latin America
- The Visegrád Group (V4) and Central-Eastern Europe Society and Politics in the Middle East
- Frame of optional subjects
Semester 6
- Diplomacy and International Communication specialization
- Model Diplomacy
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Global Environmental Politics
- The (geo)politics of digital technologies
- International Development Cooperation specialization
- International Business Culture
- International Project Work
- International Development Assistance: Practices and Policies
- Degree thesis consultation II
- Degree thesis
- Internship
- Frame of optional subjects
Price
Fee for two semester (1 year education) is 6,600 EUR for international students.
Requirements for applicants
- Completed secondary school studies
- GPA: above 60% - annually and in the final exam
- Intermediate command of English (equivalent to IELTS 5.5+ or TOEFL 69+ level, but no certificate required)
About the university
With 8,000 students, Budapest Metropolitan University is the largest private university in Hungary. We offer several bachelor's and master's degree programs in communication, business, tourism, and the arts.
We have foreign students from more than seventy countries because we provide a wide variety of degree programs entirely in English. Our degrees are globally recognized and highly regarded in the business community. In addition to recruiting renowned academics and business leaders for our faculty, we also recruit renowned academics and business leaders. We provide scholarship possibilities for study abroad at over 120 partner institutions on five continents. In addition to a choice of internship possibilities at international corporations, students also have access to a vast array of training programs that emphasize experiential learning. Students in business programs can get a Hungarian and British degree after three and a half years of study in Budapest alone.
The University's mission is to provide a high-quality education even by European Union standards in the areas of social sciences, economic studies, art and art mediation, communication, and tourism through bachelor's and master's degrees, specialized training, advanced vocational education, tertiary vocational education, and adult education.
