Course overview
This degree will provide you with a deep understanding of policy, politics and power in the modern world and the forces that shape these dynamics at the global and domestic levels. Throughout your studies, you’ll gain the skills and training you’ll need to pursue your own career pathway, including taking dedicated employability courses and having opportunities to complete a work placement, field study trip or parliamentary internship. You’ll learn about political institutions and processes, business–government relations, and foreign policy and globalisation. In your first year, you’ll develop your understanding of politics and international relations. In your final years, you’ll expand this knowledge by completing a major. Every business student has access to BusinessPLUS, which offers mentoring, personal branding, networking and career mapping so you can enhance your degree and competitiveness in the employment market. For more course information, visit Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Political Science and International Relations at GU.
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Career Opportunities
As a graduate with strong analytical skills, you may pursue work in a broad range of sectors including the government, not-for-profit, international organisations, media, political parties, a range of corporate environments, as well as start-ups and entrepreneurial enterprises. Political science and public policy provides opportunities administering advice to government and business leaders, developing policy and managing programs in areas like economic, environmental and social policy, diplomacy and trade relations. An International Relations qualification gives you a range of employment options in Australia and internationally. You could find a job in foreign ministries, defence departments, intelligence and aid organisations. You could also work in political risk assessment and humanitarian logistics, or for organisations such as the United Nations and its agencies. Depending on your major, you could work as an accountant, economist, in financial planning, in advertising, event management and marketing, international and Asian business specialist, a business owner or entrepreneur, in employment relations, export, human resources management, in tourism and hospitality management, real estate and property development, sport management, in sustainable business and business analytics.
Majors
For available majors, please refer to the separate entries for Griffith University's Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Political Science and International Relations.
Entry requirements
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English requirement
IELTS 6.5, no band below 6TOEFL iBT 79, no band below 20PTE Academic 58-64, no band below 50Cambridge C1 Advanced / C2 Proficiency 176-184, no band below 169
If the student's current English result is below the direct-entry requirement, consider the university's recognised English language pathway or ELICOS package. When the student successfully completes the approved pathway at the required level, the university may accept that pathway for English entry without requiring a new IELTS, TOEFL or PTE result. Always confirm exclusions for professional registration courses and the offer conditions.
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