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Course summary

Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information. Course summary

  • Gain the expertise you need to excel in international business and marketing.
  • Engage with real organisations via a live consultancy project.
  • Develop your skillset through collaborative and independent learning.
  • Attain rounded knowledge on an academically challenging, multidisciplinary course.
On this course, you'll tackle business and marketing with an outward-facing, international perspective. You'll consider strategy and engagement on a global scale, and understand how business is conducted across cultures and borders. How you learn All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. On this course, you'll study international business topics such as globalisation, multinational enterprises, cross-cultural management, international strategy, and global supply chains. In the marketing strand, modules will focus on areas such as international markets, brands and consumers. Practical work is featured throughout the course to ensure that you apply your skills. Our large and diverse teaching team combines practical industry experience and academic research expertise. This enables us to blend contemporary, real-world understanding of business with advanced theoretical knowledge and a truly international perspective. You learn through
  • lectures
  • seminars
  • workshops
  • live projects
  • simulations
  • peer learning
  • independent study
  • guest speakers
This course is delivered face-to-face over three semesters - teaching is scheduled based on the length of your course and the academic calendar. Applied learning - Live projects The course features an international consultancy project opportunity, supported by Venture Matrix, in which you carry out assessed projects based on real-world business solutions for local, national or global organisations. The project aims to enhance your business awareness and improve your employment prospects. The opportunity to visit and communicate regularly with a real company will be particularly beneficial to international students from the point of view of business engagement and practical experience. There are also business simulations throughout the course. These opportunities give you the chance to develop your practical skills in a real world setting. Networking opportunities Throughout the course, you'll benefit from frequent interaction with the business community — allowing you to make useful connections for your career. Field trips There are field trips and site visits on the course to demonstrate the business environment, and allow for useful real-world experiences and insight.

Modules

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change. When selecting electives, your choices will be subject to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives in some instances. Compulsory modules Contemporary International Management Practice Digital Marketing Dissertation Global Supply Chain Management International Consultancy Project 2 International Strategic Management Principles Of International Business Research Methods Understanding Markets Elective modules Entrepreneurial Marketing And Innovation International Consumer Behaviour

Assessment method

Coursework Practical

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • AACSB International

Entry requirements

Good degree (minimum second class honours) or international equivalent, normally in a business-related subject If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent. Work experience will be considered. Exceptionally, candidates with insufficient academic qualifications but extensive relevant employment and managerial experience will be considered for admission to the course, if, in the opinion of the course leader, there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the individual has the potential to successfully complete the chosen course of study.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent.

https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/business-and-management/msc-international-business-and-marketing/full-time

https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/business-and-management/msc-international-business-and-marketing/full-time

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Additional fee information

Please refer to our website for up-to-date information on costs and fees for both full-time and part-time postgraduate study options: https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here
International Business and Marketing at Sheffield Hallam University - UCAS