International Business with Placement Year

Start your journey towards becoming a future business leader and shape your international career. On this four year BSc you'll study business management with an international focus. We'll equip you with the skills to meet the challenges of the international business environment.

You'll study key principles across accounting, marketing, finance, strategy and entrepreneurship. The course looks at how organisations succeed in a globalised world. You'll explore new markets, customer relationships, products, services and processes.

Gain a competitive edge by:

• Engaging with the latest theoretical and practical developments.

• Using state-of-the-art theoretical frameworks and case studies.

• Undertaking an extended business project analysing a real-life business problem.

• Gaining hands-on experience through industry-orientated assessments, created with international businesses.

• Opportunities for international business study trips.

Graduates from the University of Southampton Business School earn £34,100 on average within 15 months of graduating (Graduate Outcomes 2022-23 published 2025).

You can enhance your employability by spending the third year of this course putting the skills and knowledge you've learnt so far into practice during a paid industrial placement year.

We also offer a variant of this course with a study abroad year at one of our international partner universities instead of a placement year in your third year.