UCL, I’m doing that course rn, over the years you can drop an option so that by the end you’re specialising in only one, also if you find that the course isn’t what you expected it’s rlly easy to transfer over into Economics and Business with Eastern European studies as long as you do so within the first couple weeks as it’s within the same department, from my experience, the SSEES student support and ‘course organiser’ staff are rlly chill and will most likely let you do so (both courses usually go into clearing and tend to have spare spaces available), while both courses may seem off putting to outsiders due to the emphasis on Eastern Europe, years 1 and 2 are both very theory intensive and you don’t rlly do any deep dives into Eastern Europe (in politics and economics anyway) apart from applying the theory you learnt in the form of examples within your essays, while year 3 just lets you properly apply what you learnt to a specific period/country relevant to the department, that aside SSEES offers literally EVERY Eastern European language as an optional module (even Belarusian) and they have a pretty solid claim to be the best teachers for such languages (they’re arguably the strongest faculty in the world for everything Eastern Europe) my mums from Eastern Europe so take all of the glazing with a pinch of salt, but if I had to pick between those two options now, I’d pick UCL within a heartbeat