Politics and International Relations
Who holds power and why? Is globalisation positive? When is war just? Politics and International Relations at Leicester is made for people who love to tackle the big topics. Our courses will fire your intellectual curiosity about world politics, and you'll learn how to write, research and reason with incredible clarity.
Undergraduate courses in Politics and International Relations
7th in the UK for student experience in Politics and International Relations (The Times UK University Rankings 2026)
Ranked top 10 in the UK for subjects aligned to Politics for ‘overall positivity’ in the NSS 2025. (Based on University of Leicester analysis using the Times Higher Education NSS 2024 methodology applied to the NSS 2025 data of aligned subjects)
Politics and International Relations: On Demand
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