Undergraduate

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Pursue your political passions

From Conservatism to Radicalism, China to Russia, our degrees offer choices. What will you pick?

Undergraduate courses


Study Politics and International Relations at Kent and you are immersed in some of the key issues of the world today. Our academic staff take an innovative approach to teaching – inspiring enthusiasm and provoking lively debate.

We have a range of flexible programmes, with options to learn a language, spend a year abroad, or study politics alongside another subject. On each programme, you can pick the subjects that interest you most from a range of optional modules.

Core programmes

All programmes

Liberal Arts BA

Understand the world from a political, cultural, historical and economic perspective. You also have the option to spend a year studying abroad in Europe or Japan.
Photo of Liberal Arts student Judith Sponselee

“Everyone brings their culture with them.”

Discover how Judith's Liberal Arts degree helped shape her international outlook