The Undergraduate Degree in International Relations in Spain: From Emergence to Consolidation (2009-2019)

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze the (r)evolution of the undergraduate degree in international relations in Spain during its first decade of existence. After summarizing the difficulties for its implementation in 2009 it overviews the development in terms of student population and universities, with a special focus on the geographical dispersion and the private or public caracter of the institutions. Distinctive characteristics such as the high grade point average for admission and the combinability with other undergraduate studies in the format of full double degrees are debated. The enormous success, demostrated through the meteoric proliferation, poses for the next decade the challenge of consolidation. This path will necessarily lead through attention to high-quality teaching and the setting up independent institutional structures such as departments or even schools exclusively devoted to international relations undergraduate (and postgraduate) education.

Keywords

• grado en relaciones internacionales
• estudios internacionales
• estudios globales
• titulaciones universitarias
• universidad española
• proceso de bolonia
• espacio europeo de educación superior