International Business
Develop your knowledge and skills with a focus on international business operations to kickstart your career as a manager and business specialist.
About this course
This programme offers the essential knowledge, understanding, skills and experience needed to operate effectively and successfully in an international business environment, also suiting experienced managers who lack a theoretical and applied understanding of the modern international business environment.
You'll explore three key themes embedded throughout the modules: the increasing significance of the global/local marketplace (international supply chains, export/import operations, international expansion and e-commerce); understanding international customers, underpinned by customer relationship management and cross-cultural management of diverse international teams; and international business strategy development, including international finance, mergers and acquisitions, international partnerships, global supply/distribution chains and joint ventures, alongside sustainability, corporate social responsibility and business ethics.
The core modules cover all key functional areas — principles of international business, corporate and international strategies, international operations and global supply chain management, retailing and services marketing, and leadership and professional development — taught with an international perspective for today's global economy.
Course content
- The global/local marketplace and international supply chains
- International customer relationship management and cross-cultural management
- International business strategy: finance, M&A, partnerships and joint ventures
- Sustainability, corporate social responsibility and business ethics
- International management and marketing
- Business research and analytics
Modules you may study
Can you apply?
An honours degree (minimum 2:2) in any discipline.
If you are a non-native English speaker and have never been educated in the UK or another English-speaking country, IELTS 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in any component) or equivalent is the minimum requirement. This course is not available to students on a Student Route Visa.
Where this can take you
On successful completion of this degree, you'll be able to demonstrate a broad knowledge and understanding of organisations, the international context in which they operate and how they are managed — able to understand, respond to and lead change, and to demonstrate intellectual breadth by making integrative links across the functional areas of international business, supporting your career as a manager and business specialist.
Course Facts
- Qualification
- MA
- Duration
- 1 year full-time
- Study Mode
- Full-time
- Campus
- London, Birmingham
- Start Dates
- January, September
- Awarding Body / Partner
- Delivered in partnership with Leeds Trinity University
- Fees & Funding
- UK Home fees: £9,000. Tuition Fees for this course in 2026/27 cost £9,000. Depending on government policy, tuition fees may change/increase in future years, and we will publish more information about fees for 2027/28 entry and fees for continuing years of study, when confirmed by the government.
Student Support
You'll be assessed on your ability to present an academic argument, apply theory into practice, and demonstrate a practical, integrative approach to a problem or issue — through reports, project plans, case studies, market analysis, individual and team presentations, personal portfolios, a research project proposal and a final research project report or dissertation. No exams are used.
Student representatives are elected each year, trained and hold regular meetings to represent students in institutional forums, and students are eligible for Leeds Trinity Students' Union membership.
Academic support is available via WIC's ACE programme throughout your studies. This course is subject to a minimum enrolment of 15 students.
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