Course description

The highlights

• A new degree from our successful Business School
• Spend the first year covering all aspects of international business management to find out where your passions and talents lie. From year two, you can continue on a general International Business Management pathway or choose one of the following:
  • BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Business Technology)
  • BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Economics)
  • BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Finance)
  • BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• In the second year, you can study abroad for a semester and gain valuable experience of another culture and how business operates in another country
• Our Financial Markets Lab puts a wealth of international business data at your fingertips and gives you an in-depth understanding of economies across the world
• This degree is accredited by both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and these approvals can benefit your career in several ways.

Your global business career starts here

Globalisation has opened up exciting career prospects for people who understand business from an international, cross-cultural perspective. We’ve designed this new BSc (Hons) International Business Management to help you make the most of those opportunities.

The degree will encourage you to think widely and offers you the chance to study a range of subjects including business management, economics, accounting and finance, marketing, human resource management (HRM), logistics, enterprise, IT and technology.

Events such as Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-9, have increased interest in many of these subjects. They have shown that it's important to get a complete picture of economic and business problems — both in relation to what causes them, what impact they have and what solutions there might be.

International Business – your questions answered

In the below video, Senior Lecturer, Dr Mehdi Hasan, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about International Business at the University of Derby.

How you will learn

You will focus on solving genuine business and organisational problems. We use a combination of:

• interactive lectures
• problem-solving seminars
• group work and group discussion
• workshops
• case study analysis
• computer lab work and practical analysis.

Throughout your studies, you will also engage with businesses and external experts.

At the start of the course, you will benefit from substantial direction from our teaching team. As your studies progress, you are expected to work more independently, taking greater responsibility for your own learning – but always with the support and advice of your tutors.

We also have a diverse range of guest speakers to inspire our students and share their stories. Recently we had Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who delivered a session on ‘The concept of microcredit’ as part of our 2021 Student Lecture Series.

How you are assessed

Our assessments are designed to ensure you can identify issues, decide how to collect and analyse evidence, come to reasoned conclusions based on that evidence, and present your findings via various methods of communication.

We use a range of assessment methods; some are individual tasks while others are group tasks. These may include:

• computer-based assessments
• traditional essays
• business reports
• presentations
• data retrieval and analysis
• reflective portfolios.