Master's Degree in Internationalization: Economic, Business and Legal-Political Aspects
Barcelona, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 19 / per credit *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* (82 euros for students from outside the EU and non-residents of Spain). Prices for the 2025-2026 academic year
Key Summary
About: This Master's at The University of Barcelona trains you to analyze internationalization across economic, business, legal, political, social and cultural dimensions. It addresses globalization shifts, geopolitical tensions, security, climate change and the energy transition. The program combines interdisciplinary coursework and research preparation and provides a pathway to doctoral studies. Keywords: international business, international law, geopolitics, global markets, trade policy, cross‑border strategies, policy analysis, sustainability, governance.
Career Outcomes: You'll qualify for roles in internationalized companies, firms with internationalization projects, national or state public institutions that promote internationalization, public‑private cooperation bodies, supranational and international organizations, and consultancy and advisory institutions supporting global positioning.
International relations comprise increasingly complex fields of knowledge that entail profound changes in the rules of the game for economic, business, legal, social, and political activities, among others. This gives rise to new training needs and demands that require starting from these new realities and trends. Therefore, this significant reality forms the starting point of this master's program.
On the other hand, current challenges highlight the role of external dimensions in the global positioning of many economies and societies. It is therefore necessary to delve substantially deeper into international aspects, training individuals with the analytical and professional skills needed to understand and adapt to the innovative demands of today's world. Furthermore, the master's program also serves as a pathway to doctoral studies, providing a solid academic and research foundation.
Furthermore, the master's program addresses the particularly interdisciplinary dynamics of global problems and challenges, in which economic and business dimensions interact in a particularly complex way with sociopolitical, legal, and cultural dimensions. It adapts to growing geopolitical challenges, including changes in the globalization trend, increasing security concerns, challenges related to climate change and the energy transition, and growing geopolitical polarization, which once again focuses attention on certain geographical areas at the expense of others.
In summary, the goal of the master's program is to prepare students to face these challenges with a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective.
Credit distribution
List of subjects
Training supplements
goals
The objectives that students of the Master's in Internationalization must achieve are summarized in the following points:
- To acquire a broad knowledge of international relations and the new scenarios that shape globalization.
- Acquire the necessary skills and abilities to assume leadership, analysis and management tasks in companies and institutions, incorporating the dynamics of internationalization.
- Being able to respond to the needs of societies that want to integrate into new global realities and recognizing the ability to face these challenges as one of the foundations of their prosperity.
- To obtain a truly interdisciplinary education.
- Strengthen analytical skills, reasoning and synthesis mechanisms, and oral and written communication skills through the full range of possibilities offered by technology.
Competencies
Students should be able to do the following:
- Identify the specific problems of each of the different subjects that interact in complex global realities, in order to fully understand them.
- To recognize and identify economic and business problems in the commercial, financial and technological fields; their implications for the management of companies and institutions; and their short and long-term effects, in order to be able to evaluate the available options and the conditions at play.
- To recognize and identify the different configurations of legal phenomena and socio-political dimensions, and their concrete implications for private or public entities operating within the international framework, in order to assess the available options and the conditions at play.
- Analyze the options, potential, and opportunities present in different regions of the global economy, identifying the specificities of each type of market and society, in order to obtain the best effectiveness in action, based on the professional responsibility held.
- To identify and assess the interrelationships between the different aspects of complex global realities, in order to make recommendations and take appropriate decisions.
- Select information and data, develop them from previous sources, analyze them constructively and creatively, and synthesize them in a relevant way; and generate critical assessments in order to support positions and argue decisions and proposals.
What kind of work will you be able to do?
The demand for professionals with interdisciplinary training in internationalization is high, as shown by the employment and professional placement results of previous graduating classes of this master's program. The following career paths are included:
- Internationalized companies, both national companies with a global reach and foreign companies with a presence in national or global markets.
- Companies with internationalization projects and initiatives.
- Public institutions of national or state scope with powers of promotion, encouragement and support of internationalization.
- Inter-company or public-private cooperation bodies with tasks of supporting and promoting internationalization.
- Supranational or international organizations and institutions.
- Institutions with analytical and advisory activities related to internationalization and improvement of the global positioning of companies or countries.
'You want to do a PhD
The Master's degree in Internationalization opens the door to the possibility of pursuing a doctorate in the Spanish university system in areas related to internationalization in the economic, legal and business fields.