Course overview

Shape your degree to suit your own interests and career goals with our industry accredited BSc International Business. This flexible course includes the opportunity to develop your practical skills during an optional year in industry, or to experience studying in another culture by taking a year abroad at one of our many partner universities.

This course is accredited by the Institute of Export and International Trade and will provide you with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the core theories, practices and techniques of managing international business.

You’ll develop the knowledge, analytical and interpersonal skills needed to manage complex organisations across national borders, especially in international trade, foreign direct investment, non-equity expansion modes and international supply chain management.

You can shape your degree to your own interests and career goals with optional modules including managing global value chains and management decision-making, as well as a range of beginners languages modules.

Pathways

This programme offers pathways from Year 2 which will allow students to tailor their course to their specific interests or professional aspirations. The pathways will provide modules that can be taken in particular areas and followed through to their final year. This allows a level of personalisation and self-direction not previously available on this programme, providing students with a degree of flexibility to meet their own needs.

The pathways available on this programme are:

• Analytics
• Consulting
• Economics
• Enterprise and Innovation
• Marketing
• Ethics and Sustainability

Course highlights

• Choose to take an optional year in industry gaining practical experience or spend a year studying in another culture at one of our many partner universities across the world.

• Gain essential practice for your career, including the opportunity to apply your learning in your final year by taking part in live business simulations.

• Develop important research and analytical skills and apply these in your final year to a year-long project on an international business topic of your choice.

Accreditation

Leeds University Business School has triple accreditation from the three leading bodies AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS

Our International Business degrees are accredited by the Institute of Export and International Trade, which allows you to acquire an exporting qualification after your studies and strengthens your job prospects.

Course details

Our degrees have a modular structure. This means that compulsory modules provide you with the core knowledge and skills that you need, while optional and discovery modules allow you to shape your course to suit your personal interests and career aspirations.

Year one

Year 1 gives you a firm grounding in the different disciplines that relate to international business. You’ll explore the key concepts and theories in the subject and put them into context with an understanding of entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour and economics. Optional modules allow you to explore topics such as economic controversies, effective decision-making and the relationships between businesses and societies. You will also have the option to develop new language skills with a choice of several modern languages.

Year two

In the following year you’ll learn more about research methods in international business and go into more depth on the challenges and strategies related to managing across cultures and international boundaries. The range of optional modules available means you can also explore aspects of business that interest you such as marketing, small business growth, corporate social responsibility or related areas of economics.

Final year

Your final year brings you closer to the very latest research in international business through compulsory modules that will develop your knowledge of international strategic management and transnational corporations. You’ll compete in an international business simulation, giving you the opportunity to develop and apply your knowledge of business strategies and theories in a practical team-based environment. You’ll then complete the year with optional modules in areas such as business in Europe, international marketing as well as the application of ethics to business. The course culminates with an independently researched dissertation on an international business topic of your choice and is an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired.

Course structure

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our terms and conditions.

For more information and a full list of typical modules available on this course, please read International Business BSc in the course catalogue

Year 1 compulsory modules

• Academic and Professional Development for Studies in International Business
• Principles of International Business
• Global Entrepreneurship
• Organisational Behaviour
• Economics for Management

Year 2 compulsory modules

• Cross-Cultural Management
• Research Methods in International Business
• Managing International Business

Year 3 compulsory modules

• Transnational Corporations in the World Economy
• International Business Dissertation
• International Strategic Management

Career opportunities

Whether your career aspirations lie within government departments, consultancy firms, small and medium-sized enterprises or large multinational enterprises, this course will give you a vital understanding of the challenges, opportunities and processes of international business.

This course is designed to prepare you for roles in a range of international business settings, with emphasis placed on export management, supply chain management, strategic analysis, business development, business and foreign market analysis, and a variety of marketing management positions.

* Scholarships available for international students.