Politics, Economics and Global Development

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Global DevelopmentBA (Hons) Politics, Economics and Global Development

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AwardDegree of Bachelor of Arts

UCAS Course CodeL096

Typical OfferABB

Contextual OfferBBC

Course Length3 years

Course Start DateSeptember 2027

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Politics, Economics and Global Development with a Placement Year

BA (Hons) Politics, Economics and Global Development with a Year Abroad

Other Start DatesSelect a start dateSeptember 2025September 2026View Course

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UEA is ranked 1st overall for research quality in Development StudiesTimes Higher Education REF 2021

Worldwide for Development StudiesQS World University Rankings by Subject 2023

Of graduates go on to work and/or study within 15 months after the courseGraduate Outcome Survey 2020

Course Overview

Why BA Politics, Economics and Global Development at UEA?

Tackle today’s biggest global challenges, including inequality, climate change and conflict, with this innovative new degree: BA Politics, Economics and Global Development. Designed for ambitious students with an eye on impact, it combines rigorous academic training with practical, career-ready skills.

Why choose UEA

Interdisciplinary training: Equip yourself with the interdisciplinary tools from politics and economics to understand how power, markets and institutions shape people’s lives

Highly topical: Study how governments make decisions, why some countries develop faster than others and the basis for fairer and more sustainable societies

Real world analysis: Gain hands-on experience analysing real data and evaluating policies used by governments and international organisations

What is Politics, Economics and Global Development?

Politics, Economics and Global Development is a new interdisciplinary degree designed to give you the flexibility to shape your studies around your interests and career goals. You can specialise in areas including public policy and governance, economic growth and inequality, global development and sustainability.

Working alongside research-active lecturers, you'll explore contemporary case studies from across the world, from North America to Africa. Through policy briefs, simulations, research projects and independent study, you'll turn complex ideas and evidence into clear, persuasive arguments.

Based in UEA’s prestigious School of Global Development, ranked first in the UK for Development Studies (THE REF 2021), this degree places you at the heart of excellence in global scholarship.

With a strong focus on employability, graduates develop highly transferable skills in research, data analysis, critical thinking and professional communication.

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A Career in Development

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Meet your course director

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Career Pathways

With a BA Politics, Economics and Global Development degree, you'll have an impressive interdisciplinary skill set needed by a range of organisations. You'll be attractive to employers across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors both at home and abroad.

Government and public sector: Civil service, government departments, local agencies, overseas aid organisations and regional planning offices

Private sector: Companies, businesses and consultancy firms

NGO sector: Local, national and international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working in diverse areas including development, human rights and humanitarian intervention

Academic research and policy advocacy: Universities, think tanks and research institutes

International institutions: World Bank, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labour Organization, and so on

Career Support

Employability and careers guidance are embedded throughout the degree. For example, you'll have access to professional skills workshops and volunteering opportunities and will be able to build professional networks through employability related events. You'll also be given the exciting opportunity to undertake a work placement in the UK or abroad. You can also choose to take a placement year, even if you don’t select it at the time of application.

Discover more on our Careers webpages

After the Course

You'll graduate with transferable knowledge and skills valued across public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Graduates are well prepared for careers in international organisations, government, consultancy firms, NGOs, and think tanks, or for further study in areas such as law or public policy. You'll also be in an excellent position to undertake higher postgraduate study in global development with politics, economics, or other social science subjects.

Study and Modules

Year 1Year 2Year 3

Structure

The core modules in your first year will provide you with a strong and balanced grounding in the study of global politics, economics, and development. You'll build a solid foundation in key political, economic, and development theories, concepts, and analytical tools. You'll be introduced to major global actors and institutions, including states, markets, corporations, donors, NGOs, and social movements. By the end of year one, you'll have a strong understanding of the major political and economic issues facing the world today, from the rise of techno-authoritarianism to shifting patterns of aid, multilateral cooperation, human migration, conflict, and environmental catastrophes.

Compulsory Modules

POWER, (DIS)ORDER & SECURITY: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 1

BIG QUESTIONS FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET

PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT

Optional A Modules (Credits: 20)

WORLDBUILDING: INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY

GLOBALISATION, GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS 2

INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Important Information

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.

In your second year, you'll deepen your knowledge of the interplay between political, economic and social forces shaping the contemporary world. You'll explore how individual behaviours, cultural norms and structural contexts intersect to influence patterns of power, inequality, and social change across different societies.

Through core modules, you'll strengthen your social science research skills. You’ll learn how to design surveys and conduct interviews and apply a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. You'll have options to specialise in a wide range of critical areas (from gender, to media, and global political economy) and regions (across the Global North and South) building your degree pathway in the manner best aligned with your interests.

CULTURE AND POWER

STATES, INSTITUTIONS AND CITIZENS

BECOMING A SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCHER

QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE IN DEVELOPMENT

ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS

Optional B Modules (Min Credits: 20, Max Credits: 40)

ANALYSING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM REALISM TO POSTCOLONIALISM

ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT 2: MICROECONOMICS

GENDER AND POWER

DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE

GENDER AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATION AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Optional C Modules (Min Credits: 20, Max Credits: 40)

SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT

POLITICAL VIOLENCE & CONFLICT: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

POWER, WEALTH AND NATIONS: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT

ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT 3: MACROECONOMICS

In your final year, you'll bring together and build upon the analytical, theoretical and research skills developed throughout the degree to engage in advanced study of some of the most pressing global challenges, including wars, humanitarian crises and the inequities of globalisation. You'll choose from a range of advanced modules. They’ll encourage independent and critical thinking on challenging themes, including digital politics, decolonial knowledge production, and just transformations to sustainability. This final year places a strong emphasis on employability and independent study, by giving you the opportunity to do a development work placement and write a dissertation on a topic you’re passionate about.

WARS AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES

GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Optional A Modules (Min Credits: 0, Max Credits: 40)

DISSERTATION

DIGITAL POLITICS

EAST AFRICA FIELD COURSE

MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE

DEVELOPMENT WORK PLACEMENT

DECOLONIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION

DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

MULTICULTURALISM

PROJECT DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

JUST TRANSFORMATIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY

ACTIVIST CAMPAIGNING

CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS

CULTURE, SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT

Learn Beyond the Classroom

Fieldwork is central to Global Development at UEA, with opportunities to develop practical research skills through local residential trips, UK community-based field courses, or a subsidised experience in East Africa.Explore Fieldwork Opportunities

Teaching and Learning, and Assessment

Teaching and Learning

Our teaching staff are actively researching real-world issues, bringing their research into the classroom. They’re experienced in interdisciplinary research and teaching, combining their disciplinary expertise with insights from other disciplines. Each module is typically taught by small teaching teams, enabling a more interesting and varied experience of learning.

In the first year, teaching and learning takes place through a mixture of lectures, seminars, independent study, and group work. Both lectures and seminars are highly interactive and dialogue-oriented, pushing the boundaries of active learning with classroom debates, role play, and commenting on videos, amongst other techniques.

The second year builds on the interactive teaching methods of year one, with more emphasis on applied and reflexive learning. You'll receive methodological training through a range of cutting-edge methods modules that will hone qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods skills, allowing you the option to specialise in any of these areas.

In your last year, lectures will be combined with more student-led discussions of key topics and readings, with greater emphasis on independent learning and presentation. You'll have the option of doing a work placement with an organisation of your choice (either at home, or overseas) or writing a dissertation through an independent research project.

Assessment

Our assessment techniques are varied, combining a range of different types of methods. We provide detailed feedback on your work to help you improve and achieve stronger results in your final assessments.

In year one, you'll have a variety of assessments including essays, classroom and online tests and group presentations, depending on the modules that you choose. We organise peer-based discussions to allow you to discuss your ideas with one another, before receiving feedback from your lecturers.

While continuing with the assessment methods of year one, in the second year you'll be introduced to some new assessment types such as case study and policy briefs, and annotated bibliographies. We’ll sometimes ask you to explain the methods followed in developing an argument through a reflective essay.

In your final year, you can choose to write a dissertation on a topic through independent research. The dissertation is optional. You can choose to elect different modules with other forms of assessments like essay-based coursework, module tests, and examinations.

Entry Requirements

UKInternational

This course is open to

UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.

We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.

You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.

English and Mathematics

All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language at minimum grade C or grade 4 and Mathematics at minimum grade C or grade 4.

We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies(opens in a new window) page.

Contextual Offers

UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes(opens in a new window).

Typical UK Entry Requirements

A levels

Contextual offer: BBC

Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM

Contextual offer: DMM

BTEC in Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration are all excluded from our BTEC offers

Combinations of BTEC and A levels

Access to HE Diploma

Pass Access to HE Diploma with Distinction in 30 credits at Level 3 and Merit in 15 credits at Level 3

T levels

Obtain an overall Merit. Any subject is acceptable.

Foundation Year options:

If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our Foundation Year programmes such as - BA (Hons) International Relations and Politics with a Foundation Year

Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall

Irish Leaving Certificate

3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3

Scottish Highers

Scottish Advanced Highers

A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable.

Deferred Entry

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.

Admissions Policy

Our Admissions Policy(opens in a new window) applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.

Progression

Once enrolled onto a course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement, or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.

Typical International Entry Requirements

We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. For specific details about your country, view our information for International Students(opens in a new window).

UEA International Study Centre

If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, UEA International Study Centre offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree.

English Foreign Language

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):

IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies(opens in a new window) for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, UEA International Study Centre offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:

English language at UEA International Study Centre

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Fees and Funding

Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2027/28 are:

UK Students: £10,050

International Students: £24,250

We estimate living expenses at £1,171 per month.

Further Information on tuition fees can be found here(opens in a new window).

Scholarships and Bursaries

We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships(opens in a new window) for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.

Course Related Costs

Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.

How to Apply

Apply for this course through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS), using UCAS Hub.

UCAS Hub is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.

Your application does not have to be completed all at once. Register or sign in to UCAS to get started.

Once you submit your completed application, UCAS will process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.

The Institution code for the University of East Anglia is E14.

View our guide to applying through UCAS for useful tips, key dates and further information:

How to apply through UCAS(opens in a new window)

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