Course summary

Economies are increasingly global. With this degree - designed to give you the knowledge and skills to manage a business effectively in the global context - show potential employers that you understand how business operates on an international scale. Alongside traditional business skills and disciplines such as strategy, human resource management, finance, operations and marketing, you will acquire global skills via units such as international economics, global marketing, and Intercultural awareness in business. In your final year you are supported in finding a placement which delivers invaluable international experience, as well as credit towards your degree, as you apply your learning to project work in a live setting. Choose International Business at Bedfordshire and:

• Learn through lectures, seminars and workshops, plus projects, research exercises, presentations, and case study analyses with a focus on using your knowledge and understanding in practice

• Study business management, business research, marketing, finance, accounting, operations management and human resource management

• Develop your communication and collaborative skills as well as a recognisable high level of professionalism, enabling you to fit in and be effective from day one

• Gain an understanding of the roles and relationships of businesses in the international arena, and the specific operational and strategic issues, challenges and opportunities that they face at an international level

• Explore opportunities for further postgraduate and professional study

• Benefit from a degree which gives you understanding of global business operations, analytical and problem-solving skills, and personal effectiveness and credibility when working across cultures in international teams – attributes which are highly attractive to potential employers

• Is highly vocational with a focus on knowledge and understanding of business organisations from a global perspective;

• Focuses on both large and small organisational contexts;

• Instils a high level of professionalism from the outset;

• Has a strong theoretical base in each unit;

• Develops interpersonal and collaborative communication skills

• Includes a supervised final year dissertation involving an individually conducted research element;

• Provides further opportunity for professional development in a work placement relevant to international business

• Has small class interactive teaching environments;

• Focuses on hard and soft management skills for the 21st century