Bachelor in International Business
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Aug 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 9,975 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU/EEA students | EU/EEA students: EUR 2,601 per year
Key Summary
Introduction
Why choose the International Business program offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences?
- Work on challenges set by industry to provide solutions to current issues
- Focus on business and intercultural skills
- Specialize in your field in your third year and choose from over 100 minors we have on offer
- Gain international experience in an international environment with international lecturers
- Design your study path and work with your study coach on your personal development
- Do an internship in your third year and raise your career prospects: many interns start their career in the same company
Unique offering for the Netherlands
NHL Stenden offers first-year students a housing guarantee through its accommodation partners. Sign up on time, and you’ll easily find the right place for you. Check out our housing page for more information and the terms of our housing guarantee.
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Career Opportunities
Your future
With the skillset and crosscultural insights you gain, you’ll be able to make a difference in an international business.
Career opportunities
- International marketing manager using your insights of the international market at a strategic level
- Account manager representing your organisation globally and developing contact with clients
- Export manager acting as intermediary and contact between buyers and sellers
- Corporate communications manager taking the company’s story out into the international market
- Branch manager running the national or international branch of a large organisation
- Product manager responsible for the international success of a product or service offered by your company
Curriculum
The practical way you learn
During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call DesignBased Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.
There’s a world to explore
Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUNEU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.
Course structure
- Year 1 – Learn the basics of business management and cultural awareness and look at how organisations and employees work together and how products and services can be launched in an international market. You also gain insights into how to monitor and manage company processes and finances.
- Year 2 – Deepen your insights and skills by tackling complex issues in national business by exploring subjects such as ethical & social responsibility, organisation & people, finance & accounting and research. You’ll also develop your skills in different languages.
- Year 3 – Focus on a specific subject by taking a minor and the follow up with an internship in an internationally oriented company.
- Year 4 - Work as a group advising companies on international strategy and develop your business insights before independently carrying out your graduation project.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
If you are thinking about applying to NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, you may be eligible for a scholarship. NHL Stenden offers 2 different scholarships for Non-EU/EEA bachelor students.
NL Scholarship
The NL Scholarship is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Dutch research universities and universities of applied sciences. These scholarships award selected international undergraduate students from outside the EU/EEA with a one-time financial contribution of € 5000.
NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship
The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is a performance-based scholarship for 1st and 2nd year non-EU/EEA students at NHL Stenden.
Rankings
All degrees offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences are accredited by the NVAO in the Netherlands (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).
Facilities
Why study at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.
- Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
- Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
- Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities