Anyone know anything about degrees in international relations?

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DS has long said he wants to do history and politics and all of our visits have been on the basis of this and he thought he’d firmed up his choices. Having spent some time drafting his personal statement ready for going back to school (they have to have first draft ready), he’s now wondering about international relations. He is really interested in politics but didn’t do politics A Level and his interest is more about the international side of politics than domestic.

A Levels are History, English Lit and Economics with core maths and an EPQ. He’s predicted A. A. A. Thinks he will ultimately do law (family business! DH and I are both lawyers)

we are wondering if international relations with history would be a better choice for him but none of us really know much about it.

Thanks all this is all really helpful

We hadn’t even considered St Andrews. School’s general advice (not specific to DS) was that in general Scottish applications are a risky move for English students at the moment.

Unfortunately DS is very much decided on a campus or smaller city university so I think the London options are out.

If he has decided on a campus university, St. Andrews sounds perfect. He has five options and St Andrews is certainly worth a punt.

My DS is doing IR at Lancaster having swapped his subjects around because he loved IR so much. His A levels were not connected to IR at all but he has spent the summer studying some A level economics to prepare for next year's modules.

That is the beauty of Lancaster. It’s so flexible having part 1 and part 2 (I went to Lancaster)