Birmingham, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
Want to top up your business degree in Birmingham? Our BA (Hons) International Business (Top-Up) course allows you to learn from industry-experienced lecturers.
This international business (top-up) degree develops your knowledge and skills so you can apply what you learn internationally. We focus on giving you real business scenarios to put your learning to the test and get as much experience in the business world as possible. The international focus of the course is derived through a variety of means including the student body, the teaching team and the use of international teaching materials. Our International Business (Top-up) course gives you the chance to broaden your knowledge of business within the global business environment. We’ll teach you to apply your knowledge to real international business scenarios, helping you to progress into employment, having already dealt with many situations you find in the working world.
What's covered in this course?
We’re living in an international world, where global communication and accessible customer and client services are vital. This course gives you the confidence to get out there and engage with overseas businesses.
Our top-up year in international business covers Business processes and Systems, e-Business, International Business, Strategic Management and much more. We encourage you to apply your learning to real experience and international business scenarios, so you’ll learn through group presentations, live projects and business case studies.
You will get individual tutor support and they work closely with you to support your learning. You’ll work on a range of innovative and practical projects, including business reports, case studies, presentations and group projects, all of which will help you to apply your knowledge to real businesses and real situations.
You’ll benefit from our exceptional links to business. Our staff bring in expert guest speakers and industry gurus to help you with your projects. They’ve worked all over the world and bring experience from the Ministry of Defense, aerospace and multimillion-pound conglomerates. Our staff will help to support and tailor your learning with expert industry knowledge and experience. They’re researchers, authors and titans of industry who’ll share their own practical and academic experience and expertise.
Why choose us?
- We have over 3,000 students from over 80 different countries studying with us, so you’ll get insights from an incredible mix of students and staff. You also share modules with international and UK students from our other business courses and get to network, collaborate and learn from your peers.
- Taking this course means you can top up an existing foundation degree or equivalent qualification to an honours degree in business. You can enter either at Level 5 post-certificate level or at Level 6 post-diploma level.
- We get great feedback from students. Adam Walker said, “The course challenges me academically; with smaller seminars, I am able to participate and learn a lot more in-depth.”
- Following graduation, you will have the opportunity to apply for a STEAMhouse Business Incubator membership.
Curriculum
Level 5
In order to complete this course you must successfully complete all the following core modules (totalling 120 credits).
If you study the 2-year version of the course, you will study the below modules in your first year.
- Dynamic Business Issues and Solutions
- Management Development
- Business Operations
- Marketing Communications Planning
- Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
- Business Analytics
Level 6
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following core modules (totalling 120 credits).
If you study the 2-year version of the course, you will study the below modules in your second year.
If you study the 1-year version of the course, you will study the below modules in your first year.
- Business Process and Systems
- Continuous Innovation
- e-Business
- International Business
- One Planet Business
- Strategic Management
Career Opportunities
Enhancing employment skills
During the course, you’ll learn to find appropriate solutions to complex business and management problems, evaluate the effectiveness of business activity and generate ideas for new businesses.
These skills can all be applied in the real world. Employers are always impressed that our students already know how to apply their knowledge practically, without having to learn it on the job.
The top-up degree teaches you how to work collaboratively with students from all over the world and how to act independently. By choosing your own professional route to take on management tasks and accountability, you’ll develop your confidence and be able to show employers that you can fit into an organisation well.
You’ll also learn invaluable skills such as how to conduct proper research, how to write a report and how to problem solve.
Developing your understanding of international strategic management and business operations will allow you to adapt to the ever-changing and increasingly internationally oriented-business environment.
Additional information
Students on this top-up course come from a variety of backgrounds. They study a broad selection of modules, which allows them to go on to a variety of roles in any industry, or specialise further and continue to study with us once they graduate.
We get many students from China because of the practical focus of our top-up degree and the opportunities for further study with us.
The diverse mix of students in the modules means that international students benefit from an array of students and cultural influences.