Bachelor in Global and Development Studies

Tuition comes to 4,000 EUR per year, and the application deadline for the Oct 2027 intake is Aug 28, 2027.

Global and Development Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, is a bachelor's degree taught in English over 3 years (6 semesters), with yearly tuition of EUR 4,000. Known by the acronym GLAD, the program is interdisciplinary, built to give students a grounded understanding of globalisation processes across law, politics, economy, history, social relations, culture, and communication. Students gain core knowledge of globalisation and international development while also specialising in particular aspects of these phenomena and their influence on the contemporary world. The program's structure allows students to focus either on a specific part of the world or on particular global problems and challenges, rather than following a single fixed track. Graduates come away with knowledge of the principal traditional and contemporary trends in global sociology, philosophy, politics, and economy, and the program is designed as a first step toward further academic study at the graduate and postgraduate level in fields such as international relations, area studies, political science, or economics. Program graduates are prepared for employment in public administration, national and international institutions and organisations, non-governmental organizations, international companies, cultural institutions, and mass media and publishing. Degrees of this kind more broadly develop skills in cross-cultural analysis, policy research, and comparative political economy, giving graduates a foundation for careers that require understanding of how global institutions, markets, and social movements interact across borders, whether in diplomacy, development work, journalism, or the private sector.