MA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Programme Overview

This Master programme is designed to create experts in the areas of finance and banking, accounting and auditing, insurance, marketing as well as business management. It equips students with essential skills such as social research, marketing management, financial reporting and decision-making, forming professionals with excellent entrepreneurial and leadership skills who will be valuable assets to any business. The ever-changing globalised world we live in has created a series of issues and challenges for businesses worldwide, impacting our economy as a whole. This, however, has also opened the door to opportunities for development. For this reason we make sure that our students are able to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire to practical work in the form of practical projects and assignments where they will have to research, solve complex business issues through specific methods and procedures as well as to interlink knowledge from different fields. These skills will be put to the test in their final Master Thesis.

This programme covers the following disciplines:

• Social Research Methodology
• Marketing Management
• Financial Reporting and Business Decision Making
• Modern Corporate Finance
• Advanced Auditing Methods

What you’ll learn

This programme extensively covers core disciplines of International Business, providing students with skills such as:

• The ability to take an active role in the transition process of organisations and the national economy as a whole.
• To understand issues such as globalisation, the roles and importance of multinational companies and of human resource management within these companies.
• The ability to competently and successfully contribute to the global market environment through creative problem solving, decision-making and the application of theory in practice.
• To understand marketing at both strategic and operational levels.
• To demonstrate a clear understanding of international trade issues from the theory and policy perspective and how these issues affect the behaviour of firms as well as the relationship between theory, practice and policy.
• The use of appropriate research methods to effectively address the complex issues of businesses and economic processes.

Career opportunities

International Business MA graduates will be skilled, creative, problem solving, decision-making professionals able to pursue careers in the following fields:

• Accounting and Auditing
• Finance and Banking
• Insurance
• Marketing Management
• Business Management