MSc Management and International Business
Leeds, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 17,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for international students | for UK students: GBP 9,900 per year
Key Summary
Add managerial knowledge and capabilities to your skillset to equip you for leadership roles in whatever career you decide to forge.
You will learn the broad principles of business management that will make you employable in the public, private and charitable sectors. With a particular focus on international business, you will develop a global outlook and gain an understanding of how larger organisations with an international presence compete successfully across a range of cultures and economic environments.
Modules have been carefully designed in partnership with industry experts to ensure the content and philosophy behind each subject blends contemporary theory and practice and will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to work for organisations that operate in a multinational context.
This course is ideal for ambitious graduates of any subject who want to develop their managerial prospects, and, in particular, want to work for international organisations.
Your tutors' expertise spans theory and practice, with academic staff who are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy and industry professionals qualified for chartered status in their respective fields.
Your teaching will involve a mixture of lectures, small seminars and tutorials, and will include a guest lecture programme designed to inspire you and provide you with networking opportunities with potential employers.
We are committed to offering hands-on learning and have a purpose-built business simulation suite where your growing analytical and decision-making skills will be put to the test. Mimicking facilities used to train the emergency services to coordinate responses to real-time crises, you will be presented with a range of business-critical challenges and situations. You will work in small teams to devise response strategies, using real-time business information to formulate your approach. A trained facilitator will help you evaluate and improve your analytical and decision-making abilities.
You can choose between a dissertation or a live consultancy project with one of the Faculty's partner organisations and you will negotiate the detail and scope. On completion, you will present your research to your client and academic supervisor
Why study Management and International Business at Leeds Beckett University
- Opportunity to work on a live consultancy project
- Modules designed by industry experts
- Part-time study available
- Specialist facilities
- Opportunities to gain insight from Leeds Business School guest lectures
Duration
- Full-Time: 1 Year
- Part-Time: 2 Years
There are ways you may be able to fund your course. Sometimes it is possible to get sponsorship from a government body in your country. There are many different options, so have a look through the links carefully to see if they apply to you.
- International Scholarships
- Chevening Scholarships
- US / Canada Direct Loans
Teaching & Learning
Independent study is a crucial part of learning at university and you will be required to undertake many hours of self-directed research and reading, and preparation and writing of assessments. Your course is delivered through several modules, which will help you to plan your time and establish a study routine. Outside of your lectures, workshops and tutorials, a range of support is available to assist with your independent study. Our subject-specific librarians will be on hand to direct you to specialist learning and study-skill resources. You’ll also be assigned an academic advisor to give you tailored feedback and support.
Core modules
What you'll learn
Contemporary Marketing
Develop your knowledge and understanding of the principles and theoretical foundations which govern the modern marketing environment, allowing you to progress in a specialized area of marketing such as international or services marketing.
Corporate Strategy
Acquire a strategic organizational perspective and a basis for progression and application of strategic-level skills, competencies, and decision-making capability.
Managing Financial Resources
Gain a critical understanding of contemporary accounting and financing principles which support business decision-making and financial resourcing in both the private and public sectors.
Management, People & Organisations
Develop functional knowledge and a critical understanding of key perspectives on human behaviour within the organization and on the nature and processes of organizing and managing human activity.
Global Business Strategy
Examine global business strategy perspectives for organizations and key actors. This module will address the strategic and management issues that multinational, global, and other organizations face whilst operating across borders. You'll review the main aspects of operating globally, from strategic analysis to issues of formulation and implementation in the various business functions. You'll also analyze the key strategic and managerial challenges for firms. You'll gain the knowledge and skills to develop and implement business strategies within a variety of organizational and geographical settings. To achieve this, you'll study how managers can use a variety of analytical tools to craft a strategy to help the organization gain and maintain its competitive advantage and achieve its objectives. You'll be introduced to the language, analytical tools, frameworks, and normative models of strategic management. You'll consider strategy from various organizational settings, including public and not-for-profit. You'll understand the 'why', 'what', 'where', and 'how' of strategy.
Option modules
What you'll learn
Choose one of:
International Environments of Business
Study the inter-relationships of 'uncontrollable' (macro) environmental factors in international business environments, and examine the impact of these external environments on the international operation of enterprises.
International Marketing: Emerging Markets
Develop an in-depth understanding of the dynamics and specifics of the country markets that have been, and continue to be, emerging, and those now identified as emerging. You'll gain an in-depth and strategic understanding of international marketing theory and its application to the marketing laboratory that emerging markets (EMs) represent.
Choose one of the following final projects:
Dissertation
Undertake an in-depth research project in a subject area that is appropriate to your course and your interests.
Work-Based Organisational Consultancy Project
Complete a project that explores a key issue for a client organisation - a small business, public sector organisation, social enterprise, etc. You'll focus on a key issue that the client organisation requires intelligence and information to help them tackle and address. In working with the client organisation, you'll develop and negotiate a suitable project involving the collection and analysis of a range of data and information.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Critically evaluate, synthesize, and apply advanced and contemporary theories, debates, and techniques to a range of complex and open-ended issues, problems, and situations in the fields of management and international business.
- Demonstrate a critical, ethical, and reflective approach to their professional and academic area of management and international business.
- Learn interdependently and independently and accept responsibility for subsequent career and continuing professional development.
- Critically apply, with a degree of creativity and sophistication, intellectual, transferable, and subject/professional skills to a range of complex and open-ended business problems and situations.
- Make informed judgments and decisions in a dynamic, highly competitive, and global operating environment relating to management and international business.
- Effectively carry out a live commercial project, involving secondary and primary research with due regard to ethical considerations and research methodologies.
Your broad understanding of strategic business principles and managerial skills within an international context will complement your undergraduate degree specialism. This will make you readily employable in a range of managerial positions within global organisations, including operations and business development.
- Business development manager
- Business Manager
- Operations Manager