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MA

Intermediate award(s): PG Cert, PG Dip

Full-Time

Course overview

This course focuses on issues critical to all organisations within the global economy. The global economic slowdown, following problems in the sub-prime mortgage market in the USA, has made it all too clear how interconnected the global economy really is. It emphasises the importance of multidisciplinary perspectives to the understanding of international business activity, including economic, political, legal, socio-cultural and technological perspectives. It is designed for those aiming at a career in international business and management.

There are opportunities to take a double degree, either in Groningen in the Netherlands (MBA International Management) subject to meeting both universities' entry requirements with regard to qualifying work experience, or to go to Basel in Switzerland (MSc International Management). In both cases, you will be expected to spend the diploma semester in either Groningen or Basel. If you opt to study at one of our partner institutions, you will follow equivalent modules to those you would have studied, had you stayed in Cambridge.

Additional course information

Benefits to you
Our course aims to enhance your career, through development and use of applied business skills with an international focus - through both teamwork and an individual research environment. You will be taught by some of the best-known authors in business and economics within the global economy. You will also engage with expert practitioners at the cutting edge of international business.

Benefits to your organisation
You will be able to support your organisation, helping it become more effective in the sphere of international business through your greater knowledge and experience of business and management in multinational and multicultural settings.

You can see how effective our students are in management practice on a global scale - our Lord Ashcroft International Business School team won the 2008 IBM University Business Challenge, a prestigious university business competition beating 232 other university business teams.

Module guide

Core modules: PG Cert

International Business Environment and Strategy

This module will provide a broad-based introduction to the environment in which the international business must operate, focusing on economic, legal, political, socio-cultural, ethical, ecological and technological factors influencing the decision-making of the business or organisation.
International Management Decision Making

This module will provide some of the conceptual and theoretical skills which prospective managers need in order to understand the competitive environment in which their business operates.
Research Methods for Managers in an International Context

This module will prepare you to undertake a piece of business or management research for your Masters project by developing the appropriate knowledge, understanding and transferable intellectual and practical skills.

Core modules: PG Dip

International Marketing

You will examine the processes that companies go through in the development of their international activities. Particular attention will be paid to the environmental issues relating to international market entry.
Intercultural Management

This module will provide an insight into the complexity of intercultural management. It provides a number of theoretical frameworks and an overview of the history and the current state of cultural research.
International Accounting

This module will adopt an international perspective on modern financial accounting and reporting whereby the diversity of practices in various countries are evaluated from a historical, economic, political, sociological and technological context.

Core modules: MA

Dissertation/Major Project

This module will support you in the preparation and submission of a Masters-stage project or Dissertation.

Optional modules

Management Theory into Management Practice

The module seeks to synthesize contemporary management theories with the experiential, practice-based management approaches actually adopted within private and public sector organisations.
Enterprise and Innovation

This module reviews the classical models of entrepreneurship and examines the main characteristics of entrepreneurs within organisations of all sizes. Commercial, public sector, and not-for-profit-distribution organisations can be included in this assessment.

Assessment

Assessment is mainly through written assignment or portfolio and presentations. These can be completed either as part of a group, or on an individual basis.

Facilities

Our striking, award-winning business school in Chelmsford, as well as our brand new building in Cambridge, offer the most advanced state-of-the-art learning environments.

Special features

This course provides an opportunity for you to liaise with researchers and practitioners within the field of business. You will be invited to share your experiences and culture with other Masters students in an informal, supportive environment. Specialists from across the world provide regular workshops and presentations throughout the course.

Links with industry and professional recognition

This course brings you into close contact with practitioners and specialists from a wide range of functional areas of business.

Associated careers

We have produced graduates who have been highly successful in a wide range of business, management and professional careers throughout the global economy.

Entrants will normally be expected to hold a degree at a minimum of lower second-class honours. Holders of other awards, including those from non-UK universities will be considered on the equivalence of their qualifications. Those applicants for whom English is not a first language will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent. Requests for admission via APEL will be managed via usual University procedures.

International students

International students who wish to go to Basel to study for more than 90 days would have to apply for their visa early. They would apply for a student permit. However, it takes the Embassy 8-12 weeks to complete the administration after the student has submitted their documents at the Embassy in London. If a student is successful, they would then be issued an entry permit. On arrival in Switzerland, students then report to the Foreigner Police or Town Register within eight days and a permit to study is issued.

International students will normally study the whole course in Cambridge. However, if they want to study the second semester in Basel (Switzerland) or Groningen (Netherlands) they need to secure an appropriate visa - the application process is at the discretion of the Swiss and Netherlands immigration offices respectively. We cannot guarantee that students will secure this visa, but would advise students to start the visa application process for either Switzerland or The Netherlands shortly after registration at Anglia Ruskin University.

Our published entry requirements are a guide only and our decision will be based on your overall suitability for the course as well as whether you meet the minimum entry requirements.