Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Esade may update annually their prices - but such increases shall not exceed the annual rate of inflation.
Key Summary
Become an expert in international issues
Would you like to work as a consultant in international politics, economics or globalization? Would you like to be part of organizations such as UNESCO, WHO, or the European Union?
At Esade, you’ll find a degree that allows you to specialize in international relations or economics, and move from Barcelona to top universities and institutions around the world.
The Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order will teach you to help solve the political, economic, and legal issues facing governments and organizations worldwide. Not only will you have a solid background in global governance, but you will also have the added value of a specialization in politics or global economics, and an expert knowledge of a geographic area of the world.
Why study a Bachelor's Degree in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order and international relations at Esade?
Multidisciplinary training
International governance + geopolitics + international law + economics
You will be trained in a wide range of fundamental issues for global governance – including: international legal systems; human rights; cybersecurity; macroeconomics, geopolitics, international institutions, and the environment.
Languages
The degree is taught entirely in English and offers significant language training: to strengthen your geographical specialty, you will be able to study Spanish and French or German (optional).
Study in Barcelona and abroad
Study a Global Governance degree in spain. The program is delivered in Barcelona, one of the world’s most interesting and engaging cities. However, it includes a compulsory semester abroad and the opportunity to participate in multiple experiences at international institutions in the E.U. and U.S.
International Campus
During your Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order program you’ll live and learn alongside people from many different countries. The mindset you’ll develop will increase your ability to pursue a successful global career in multicultural environments.
Learning based on experience: learning by doing
Solve practical cases and participate in international moot courts, model United Nations sessions, and a capstone module based on a European Investment Bank project.
Professional Internships
In the third and fourth years, you can gain work experience in international organizations such as the European Court of Auditors, the World Bank, and UNESCO. In the third year, you can carry out solidarity internships in countries such as Bolivia, Cambodia, Tanzania or Costa Rica.
Choose a track: Global Economics or Global Politics
In the second year you must choose the track that will decide the orientation of your degree: you can choose either political science or economics.
Global Economics
Become an expert in international economics
In this track, you will learn to understand and analyse how the world economy works. Subjects include macroeconomics, mathematics, and statistics (some of the key content studied in an economics degree).
Global Politics
Understand world politics
In this specialization, you will study political science and globalization, international politics, and conflict management, as well as geopolitics and natural resources.
International and multidisciplinary education: your outstanding value
What are international relations without a multidisciplinary perspective? Today’s political, social, and economic events can no longer be understood from a single area of knowledge: a multidisciplinary view is essential. Nations, and their institutions and companies, interact and relate constantly. Professional experts with a deep knowledge of international transactions are increasingly needed to monitor regulations in different countries, and the geopolitical and economic issues that shape reality.
With the Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order you will be one of these experts: you will be trained to analyse from a multidisciplinary point of view all types of international relations and provide solutions to the conflicts that public and private organisations face in a global environment. Understanding how the world works will enable you to influence the world, which will multiply your career options and make you invaluable for global companies and organisations
The objectives of the Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order are:
- Acquiring the ability to analyze different economic and political scenarios and situations from a multidisciplinary perspective which incorporates economic and geopolitical analyses and the application of International Law, all in an ever-changing environment.
- Be better prepared to effectively interact and work with others by becoming accustomed to working in multicultural settings, in teams and with different types of professionals.
- Incorporate ethical concerns and potential impacts on equity, social justice and sustainability in decision-making processes within any organization or institution.
- Draft concrete public or economic policies or strategies for a given institution or organization, incorporating analyses of available data and assessing the consequences of those proposed policies and strategies from a multidisciplinary point of view.
- Program participants who successfully complete the program will earn the official Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics and Legal Order degree.
If you’re a good student and enjoy learning, if you like taking on new challenges and responsibilities, if you are motivated by the idea of having a positive impact on others, then you have the talent the Esade Scholarship Programme is looking for, a programme designed to help you access our classrooms and make sure your economic or geographical circumstances don’t get in the way of your dreams.
Scholarships: financial aid valid throughout your undergraduate studies
That’s right! When the Scholarship Committee awards you a Talent, Lodging or Living scholarship, you’ll be entitled to receive the benefits every year of your undergraduate degree programme. If you have a good transcript and financial needs, scholarships are for you.
Academic Excellence Awards: financial aid to reward your outstanding grades
Awards are intended to help with your tuition fee costs: they include various types and amounts of financial aid for students with outstanding academic records, regardless of their financial situation.
Income Share Agreement
Our Income Share Agreement (ISA) allows talented individuals to fund their education from their own future earnings. With this option, students can cover the last two years of their Bachelor’s Degree or Double Degree and combine it with a Scholarship or Award, enabling them to finance up to 90% of the total cost of their education.
The syllabus combines fundamental subjects that are essential to address the sociopolitical, economic, and legal issues facing governments and organisations worldwide. In every year of the programme, you will complement your education with language training, and you will be able to participate in international experiences such as the summer programmes and study abroad.
First Year
Foundation in Law, Economics, and Geopolitics
In the first year, you will learn the foundations of the three subjects you will be studying during your degree: international law, economics and political science. It’s a year of new experiences: you can join student associations and immerse yourself in the intense on-campus life.
Second Year
Choose your specialization: global politics or economics
In the second year, you’ll decide your specialization. If you choose the global economics track, you’ll start studying subjects such as international economics, mathematical analysis, or statistics applied to the economy. If you choose the global politics track, then you’ll study subjects such as international development or international conflict management. You’ll also be able to take part in a study tour to Brussels or Luxembourg to visit major institutions such as the European Parliament, European Commission, European Court of Justice or the European Court of Auditors.
Third Year
Governance of institutions in greater depth
In year three, you’ll dive deeper into subjects such as international law, the role of financial markets in the economy, national politics, and international security as well as the interrelation between economics and law. You can also carry out a solidarity internship in South America through the SUD program: a highly recommended life-enriching experience in both personal and profesional terms.
Fourth Year
Geographic specialisation and first contact with the professional world
Year four is the time to launch yourself into the world and have life experiences and learning experiences you’ll remember forever. In the first term, you will travel abroad for your specialization in a geographic area. When you return, you will have the chance to apply what you have learned during your internship in organisations related to your track and in your final degree project.
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Global Economics
Become an expert in international economics and globalization
In this track, you’ll learn to understand how the world economy works and you’ll master the tools needed to make an economic analysis, such as statistical analysis or mathematics applied to economics. In the end you will be able to:
- Evaluate a proposed economic regulation
- Analyse a specific market
- Carry out a macroeconomic analysis of a country
- Carry out an in-depth analysis of a specific market; describe the effects of market regulations; and test hypotheses using real data.
Global Politics
Understand world politics
In this specialization you’ll study political science and globalization, international politics, and conflict management, as well as geopolitics and natural resources.
From a practical point of view, you’ll learn:
- How international conflicts are prevented
- How international development projects are managed
- Different options for interaction between public and private organizations
- How to analyse interactions between the political and economic forces
* The international stays and the syllabus are updated for web publication. Esade reserves the right to modify the content for the continuous improvement of the program. Information is correct at time of publication. Esade reserves the right to make modifications.
The Esade Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order offers is a multidisciplinary learning experience that expands your career options in international relations: as well as opportunities in global governance, you’ll also have extra career paths opened up by your specialisation in global politics or global economics.
- You will be able to offer answers to the political, economic and governance problems encountered by organisations at an international level, with the added bonus of your specialisation in a geographical area of the world.
- You can work as an expert in international politics, or international economics, in research think-tanks, consultancies, or companies, as well as public organisations.
- You can embark on a diplomatic career, or join consular missions.
- You will be able to join international organisations as an advisor: work in the UN, NATO, the World Bank, the European Union, or UNESCO, among others.
- You can work as an analyst in foreign trade consortiums, or in non-governmental organisations.
Career options in global governance
- Advisor in international organisations: EU, NATO, UN, WHO, and the World Bank
- Analyst for foreign trade consortiums
- Political career
- NGO advisor
- Diplomatic or consular career
Career options in global economics
- Economic analyst
- Consultant in international projects
- Investment banking advisor
- Research centres and economic analysis
- Multinational companies
- Economic regulation
Career options in global politics
- International political consultant
- Political science research centres
- Advisor in organisations for political analysis, or European Union organisations
- Multinational organisations
Practical methodology and hands-on learning
The innovative Learning by Doing Methodology based on applying knowledge is one of the pillars of Esade's Bachelor in Global Governance, Economics & Legal Order. Throughout the programme you will be immersed in practical learning experiences with the aim of developing key skills for your career such as public speaking, teamwork, searching for information, project presentations, debate and diplomacy.
- Inside the classroom. In dynamic, participatory classes, you will solve practical cases, working and researching in teams as you apply the knowledge of governance, geopolitics and international economics that you have acquired.
- Outside the classroom. Debating leagues, Moot Courts, and simulation of United Nations sessions.