MSc International Business
London, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2027
TUITION FEES
GBP 25,740 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas student fees | home student fees: GBP 15,130 per year
Key Summary
About: The MSc International Business at SOAS University of London (central London campus) is open to graduates from any discipline; work experience is welcome but not necessary. The programme develops corporate strategy understanding, cultural intelligence, cross-cultural communication, negotiation and critical perspectives on multinational firms and small businesses through interactive teaching, Practera work-based industry projects and the Finance and Business Network Seminar.
Career Outcomes: Graduates leave with management and finance skills, statistics and computing ability, critical reasoning and analytical thinking. Career opportunities include consulting, finance, international trade, policy, NGOs and banking roles; recent employers include Deloitte, J.P. Morgan, KPMG, HM Treasury.
MSc International Business programme is open to graduates from any discipline. Work experience is welcome but not necessary.
The programme provides students with the platform from which to understand corporate strategy and actions to address societal grand challenges in global markets, and to build up individual cultural intelligence in delivering effective communication, negotiation and work in a multicultural business environment. The programme also aims to help students establish or consolidate their career path in global firms, start-ups reaching out to international markets, or working for policy makers in international trade and investment.
Through interactive teaching and learning students are expected to develop their critical perspectives on the changing dynamics of multinational firms and small businesses and their relationships with the external environment.
The School of Finance and Management is excited to continue its collaboration with Practera, building on the success of the previous SFM Virtual Industry Projects. These bespoke work-based learning projects are designed to grow your professional skills and network through working with a team of SOAS students to tackle a real-world business challenge.
Finance and Business Network Seminar 2023/24
- This Seminar Series is open to all our UG and PG students. It offers you the opportunity to engage with experts from the worlds of business, finance, banking, and the public sector
- Listen to leaders within their fields and network with them, fellow students and Faculty over refreshments
- Most events will be held on campus, but some will be held at industry headquarters. For example, in 2022/23 an event was held at Citigroup’s Canary Wharf Offices
- The networking part of the seminars will also provide opportunities to engage with practitioners to help foster students’ career visions.
Students must take 180 credits. These are composed of 120 taught credits comprising core and optional modules and a 60-credit dissertation.
Not all option modules are offered every year; please check your preferences with the Programme Convenor. Also note that where 15 credit modules are selected, these should be balanced between term 1 and term 2.
Core
- International Management
- International Marketing
- International Business Strategy
- Multinationals and Global Business
- Dissertation in International Business
Compulsory
- Research Methods
- International Human Resource Management
Guided Options - List A
Up to 30 credits guided option
- Corporate Finance
- Cultural Intelligence and Global Business Communication
- Financial Data Modelling
- Consumer Behaviour
- We are ranked 38th in the UK for Accounting and Finance (Complete University Guide 2023)
- We are ranked 6th in the UK for graduate employability (QS World University Rankings 2023)
Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.
Recent graduates have been hired by:
- Christian Aid
- Dagong Global
- Deloitte
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Elbus Group
- Financial Times
- FM Capital Partners
- HM Treasury
- Houlihan Lokey
- Huaxia Bank, China
- IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
- Investec
- J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- KPMG
- Lloyds Banking Group
- Santander
- UBS
- University of Oxford
- White & Case LLP
- World Food Programme
Masters programmes (with the exception of two-year full-time MAs) consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits. The programme structure shows which modules are compulsory and which optional.