Bachelor of International Relations

The undergraduate version of ANU's international relations degree covers global politics, international political economy, security studies, and development through a 144-unit structure that leaves a genuinely large elective block (between 48 and 72 units) open for students to fill with whatever else interests them, from computing to history to marketing units, rather than locking IR students into a narrow disciplinary silo.

The theory-and-region combination is the degree's real identity: students work through the major schools of IR theory but also take region-specific courses, and given ANU's location within the College of Asia and the Pacific, those regional options skew toward Asia-Pacific affairs more heavily than an equivalent degree at a Sydney or Melbourne university would.

Students who want the professional edge often combine it as a Flexible Double Degree with Law, Arts, Social Sciences, Business, or Science: an IR/Law combination in particular is a common pathway toward international law, DFAT, or NGO policy roles, leveraging ANU's location next to Parliament House and most of Canberra's diplomatic missions for internships along the way.