International Business (Luton) (With Professional Practice Year) BA (Hons)

This innovative BSc International Business is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage and lead in the global marketplace. The course offers a distinctive global perspective through specialised units on international trade and investment; international business negotiations; and cross-culture management in business. These components prepare you to navigate the complexities of global markets, making you an invaluable asset to businesses operating on an international scale.<br/><br/>**Professional Practice Year**<br/>Take your course over four years and include a Professional Practice Year after your second year of studies. It is an opportunity to apply your learning in the workplace while enhancing your knowledge and skills through fee-free paid practice. It also builds your CV and industry contacts with many students progressing to employment within their practice-year organisation or institution.<br/><br/>**Facilities and Specialist Equipment**<br/>- Our Reuters trading room gives you the chance to experience what it’s like to be on the trading-room floor, reacting to live ‘stock-market’ data and building investment portfolios using data on listed companies from around the world. <br/><br/><br/>- Access to Harvard Business Publishing’s international learning resources, providing immersive simulation software to aid your learning, including Semrush (Marketing), Sage, Refinitiv Eikon and the econometrics software STATA. <br/><br/><br/>- You gain competencies in key digital skills such as Excel through SIMnet, our Microsoft Office training platform.<br/><br/><br/>**Partnerships and Collaborations**<br/>- Students can join our International Business Club, giving them a lively platform to share ideas and opportunities in the global business world. It’s more than an extracurricular activity; its a pathway to learning and growth for future IB leaders.<br/><br/>**Your Student Experience**<br/>- Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of global business operations, on a highly vocational course that combines 21st-century management skills with an international business perspective. <br/><br/><br/>- Develop skill sets much in demand by employers, including communication, analysis, problem-solving, interpersonal and collaborative. <br/><br/><br/>- Benefit from a recognisably high level of professionalism, enabling you to fit in and be effective from day one when working across cultures in international teams. <br/><br/><br/>- Undertake a supervised final-year dissertation involving an individually conducted research element. <br/><br/><br/>- Get involved in research projects at our Centre for International Business and Marketing (CIBAM), as well as short-term consultancy projects and competitions within the School. <br/><br/><br/>- Attend talks from business professionals from across the world, broadening your understanding of what is possible in the field. Recent speakers have had influential positions at Enterprise Rent-a-car, Wizz Air, IBM Global Markets, and Luton Town Football Club.  <br/><br/><br/>- Join our International Business Club and benefit from a lively platform to share ideas and opportunities in the global business world.<br/>