International Agribusiness and Trade
Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences
Key Information
Campus location
Velp, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 8,295 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* non- EU I EU € 2,530 a year
Introduction
International Agribusiness and Trade
These are exciting times. Climate change, CO2 emissions, world food supply challenges, cultural differences; challenges galore when looking at our future. This means that there are plenty of challenges, especially for students of International Agribusiness and Trade (IAT). Students who will come up with future-proof but above all future-defining solutions for us and our world. Solutions with sustainable impact. Real game changers to be sure.
Challenging
As challenging as the world is and as challenging as the field is, the IAT programme seeks to match it. Wherever you live, if you look around you, food, flowers and timber play a significant role. You will be taught about this international industry by internationally oriented lecturers. These lecturers not only teach in class, but also coach you during projects and accompany you on company visits. During the inspiring hands-on classes, lecturers will introduce you to issues such as marketing, logistics, finance, sales, change management, entrepreneurship, international trade, and sustainability in the agribusiness supply chain. All to provide you with the optimal mix of business knowledge, market insight, and research skills that will allow you to enter the job market immediately.
Appealing projects
In the IAT program, you will work individually or in groups on numerous appealing projects for clients in the professional field. The diversity of clients and assignments is enormous, given that the sector of agribusiness-related companies is also huge. This makes it possible for students to exert a great deal of influence over what their project or research is about, for example, by choosing a specific topic within the agribusiness. Through your internships and assignments you will come into contact with companies both at home and abroad. This is how you start building your own international network in your (future) professional field.
Living up to ambitions
Tailored purely to you personally, that's the IAT programme. With, on the one hand, as much individual guidance as you want or think you need. And at the same time all the space and opportunities to map out your own route. To determine your ambitions purely from your knowledge, skills, and personality, and to be able to realise them.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check our website for more information.
Curriculum
Precisely because the IAT programme is so individually structured, it offers you every opportunity to develop your own ideal combination of knowledge and skills. For instance, in the field of commerce and management, but also where more sector-specific technical knowledge about food, horticulture and flowers is concerned.
Developing Entrepreneurship
In addition, your skills in areas such as sustainability, research, and entrepreneurship are expanded step by step throughout the programme. All this is to give you every opportunity to discover and develop your own entrepreneurial qualities, set your business goals, and, most importantly, be able to achieve them.
International crowd
Students from all over the world, lecturers from all over the world... An international crowd, an international setting, the IAT programme. The goal throughout the study: is to develop and roll out sustainable, innovative, and resilient business models based on ‘best practices’.
Furthermore, starting in the second year of study, the program offers the opportunity to increasingly specialize in the agribusiness sector. You can therefore choose from sector-specific projects, minor programs, work placements, and thesis topics.
Career opportunities
Speaking of international, thanks to the IAT program, you will become a member of the now global network of former IAT students. With all the chances of landing an interesting job (temporary or otherwise) abroad.
Term 1
- The International Agribusiness and Trade
- Internship
- Business Development & Managing a company
- Internship or Minor
Term 2
- Consultancy, Sustainability & Purchase
- International Trade & Research
Term 3
- Cross Border Enterprise, Logistics & Finance
- Business Planning and Entrepreneurship
- Internship or Minor
- Thesis Process
Term 4
- Marketing, Food, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Program Outcome
- Degree: Bachelor
- When you successfully graduate from International Agribusiness and Trade you will have obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree.
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Career Opportunities
There’s almost no better key to a career in the agri-business sector than the IAT program. Because with that diploma, you are without a doubt a highly sought-after candidate for the best jobs in agribusiness. Jobs at directly sector-related manufacturing companies as well as at more sector-supporting companies. Examples include banks, suppliers, retail stores, and market research firms.
National and international work environments
Moreover, as practice has amply proven, as an IAT graduate you feel fully in your element in both national and international work environments. And are you active in positions such as:
- International Marketeer
- International Sales Manager
- Change Manager
- Transition Expert
- Export Consultant
- Value Chain Manager
- Business Developer
- Sustainability Consultant
- International Entrepreneur
To substantiate, almost all IAT graduates land jobs within a year of graduation. In fact, many even find jobs while working on their thesis, that is, during the last six months of study. And very often at the company where they are doing their graduate work.
Agribusiness professional
In order to prepare you as best as possible for your career and your future as an agribusiness professional, many aspects of this are already explicitly focused on during your study. This is done in the form of concrete assignments, through simulations and, of course, through the temp work carried out within the framework of your studies.
In this process, the way to the best, but most of all best-fit career opportunities, you will also get all the desired support from your study mentor.