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MSc

Intermediate award(s): PG Dip, PG Cert

Full-Time

Course overview

This course is intended to enhance your job prospects in strategic management and international business. It will enhance your analytical skills in applied areas of economics and interrelated disciplines. It has an international focus on developing corporate and economic decision-making skills.

In preparation for a career in the area of international business, you will:

build upon your previous knowledge and skills gained as a result of your undergraduate studies in a cognate area
develop a deep knowledge and understanding of international business within a wider organisational and contextual framework
explore current issues and thinking along with techniques applicable to research in the area of international business
develop both theoretical and applied perspectives on international business, and apply those perspectives within the organisations in which you aspire to work
develop a range of wider intellectual and transferable skills consistent with creative thought and independent learning.

Module guide

Core modules: PG Cert

International Business Environment and Strategy

You will receive 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 decision making.
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 provide you with the appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities needed to effectively carry out a piece of small-scale business/management research.

Core modules: PG Dip

Economics of Global Trade

This module will give you an understanding of modern international trade flows and trade policies, and enable you to appreciate and participate in the debates and discussions that constantly rage in this area.
International Macroeconomic Policy

This module seeks to develop an understanding of the context and constraints facing macroeconomic policy makers in the UK, US and Japan.

Core modules: MSc

Major Project

This module will support you students 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

Knowledge, understanding and key skills are assessed either through a written assignment or portfolio, a presentation, an examination, or any combination of these. These assessments can be completed either as part of a group, or on an individual basis.

The modules within your chosen pathway will be taught by a combination of lectures, workshops and seminars. From the outset staff will encourage you to develop your own independent learning activities and to take responsibility for your own progress. You will be similarly encouraged to develop presentation skills through opportunities provided in seminars and assignments and to develop written presentation skills by using word-processing for work submitted. In designing these modules, a key focus has been the further development of relevant employability and professional skills in an international context. Such skills are implicit in the learning outcomes of each module. You will be expected to participate in discussions.

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.

Associated careers

Students with an economics and business finance background can consider a career in many countries within a variety of business disciplines e.g. economics, business analysis and consultancy.

Entry Requirements:

Candidates 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. Requests for admission via APEL will be managed via usual University procedures. We welcome applications from International and EU Candidates.

Those candidates for whom English is not their first language will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

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.

We welcome applications from International and EU students. Please select one of the links below for English language and country-specific entry requirement information.