London, United Kingdom
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 25,740 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas student fees +£1,385 placement year fee | home student fees: GBP 15,130 per year +£1,385 placement year fee
Key Summary
Introduction
The MSc International Business with Work Placement Year programme provides you 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.
This programme will help you establish or consolidate your career path in global firms, start-ups reaching out to international markets, or working for policymakers 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.
For your placement year, you will have the opportunity to take part in a full-time, 10–12 month work placement at an organisation of your choice.
The programme is open to graduates from any discipline. Work experience is welcome but not necessary.
Admissions
Curriculum
Students must take 180 credits. These are composed of 120 taught credits comprising core, compulsory, and optional modules and a 60-credit dissertation.
Completion of the placement year comes with an optional additional 60 credits (on top of the 180 mandatory credits that need to be completed for the MSc International Business degree).
Not all optional modules are offered every year. 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
- 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
Rankings
- SOAS is ranked 38th in the UK for Accounting and Finance (Complete University Guide 2023)
- We are ranked 6th in UK for graduate employability (QS World University Rankings 2023).
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
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