BA International Relations

China’s economic growth has coincided with rapid globalisation over the past three decades. As this growth continues there is a need for a more specialised understanding of the country’s growing socio-economic interactions with the rest of the world.

The BA International Relations programme aims to deepen such knowledge and understanding, and to produce the entrepreneurial and managerial leaders of the future who will bring China to the world and the world to China.

Through the interdisciplinary study of the interconnectedness of politics, economics and law in global affairs, the programme examines relationships between nation states, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and multinational corporations within the international framework.

While the programme focuses on China in an international context, all students will spend one semester studying abroad in the country of their choice during their studies.

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU, referred to as "XJTLU") is a new type of international university with independent legal personality and distinctive characteristics, approved by the Ministry of Education of China and jointly established by Xi'an Jiaotong University and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. She is currently the largest Sino-foreign cooperative university in China. It started with science and engineering management and has strong cooperation. It has a bachelor's degree in the People's Republic of China and the right to grant a degree from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is located in Suzhou, China, a thousand-year-old city known as "paradise on earth". Today’s Suzhou not only retains the ancient city style of parallel water and land and the cultural tradition of advocating culture and education, but also a city that keeps pace with the times. A modern city open to the world. In recent years, its gross national economic output value has grown rapidly at an annual growth rate of nearly 15%, and its GDP has long been among the top five cities in mainland China, especially its internationally renowned China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park has gathered a large number of Fortune 500 companies. With international cooperative enterprises and R&D institutions, XJTLU provides an unparalleled economic and social ecology and a vast development hinterland for the sustainable development of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University located in it.