7 International Business Degree Programs in Sweden

Do you want to work with international business, in Sweden or abroad? In the international business program, you will learn how to establish, maintain, and develop business relations in an international context.

One way for companies to be successful is to expand in new growth markets and to do business across country borders. This two-year master's program provides adequate knowledge on how to develop competitive, dynamic, and socially responsible strategies for international companies and also offers a deeper research focus and elective courses, including possibilities of studies abroad or internships.

Companies and organisations that operate in an international context need employees with international competence and skills, including a solid understanding of cross-border, cross-cultural international business, trade, law, and economics. This programme teaches you how to understand and analyse global trade and its complexity. Your strength lies in the ability to work with analysis and strategy in an international environment. The programme combines courses in business with courses in economics, economic history, statistics, informatics and business law. Semester five gives you plenty of options regarding your course selection. You can study in Sweden, or study abroad as an exchange student. Or you could do an internship to gain practical skills and to prepare you for your future career.

The master’s programme in International Business and Trade provides a distinctive combination of training and knowledge about the functioning of multinational companies—large and small—in the global economy. As a student of the programme, you will enhance your understanding of the geography, processes, and organization of international business and develop capabilities for sustainable and competitive managerial decision making.

Continuous globalization processes of domestic economies have led to a situation where firms must face and comprehend the impact of global production, innovation, and trade networks. Consequently, there is a growing need for firms and managers to respond to increased opportunities and complexities of greater and more relaxed movement of capital, people, services, products, and knowledge as they are subject to, and must understand, stakeholders at national and supranational levels. This programme offers a unique cross-disciplinary outlook on global business—international business and economic geography.

You will take core courses in how CSR and Knowledge Management are relevant for marketing, human resources and accounting before specialising in one of these three areas of study. The capstone of your 10-month study period will be a thesis project in which you examine how a specific real-world research problem relates to one of the focus areas of the program.

The aim of the programme is to provide in-depth knowledge in additive manufacturing (AM) in metals with a special focus on, but not limited to, powder bed fusion technologies. The programme aims to fulfil the ever-increasing need of trained AM specialists pinpointed by Swedish and European industry and policy defining bodies.