International Business with Data Analytics (Taught)

This career-expanding 22-month course provides a comprehensive understanding of core business areas such as accounting and finance, cross-cultural competencies and brand management, all viewed through the lens of the global marketplace. It additionally focuses on building your data-analysis skills in specialist units designed with non-computing graduates in mind. You apply your knowledge to real-life issues, thanks to our industry collaborations, so you are fully prepared to use data and management skills on the international business stage.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• High-tech business suite complete with £500K of industry-standard hardware and software, uniquely tailored to essential management practices such as data analytics, digital marketing and ‘big data’ mining

• Access to immersive simulations and learning resources from Harvard Business Publishing

• Reuters trading room offering live ‘stock-market’ data for a realistic investment experience

• Business pods, boardroom areas and IT suites designed to simulate a professional office environment

Your student experience

Block delivery, year-round entry points and intermediate qualifications help you fit study around your other commitments.

Our business and management courses rank 4th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024, with top 3 rankings for teaching, engagement, learning community and course organisation.

Study with a team of highly qualified academics, actively involved in cutting-edge consultancy and research.

Benefit from a practice-led curriculum that uses case studies, projects and industry collaboration to prepare you to tackle real-world business challenges.

Undertake assessments linked to live projects where you engage with industry professionals and find real business solutions.

Learn to evaluate and synthesise complex data using practical exercises grounded in everyday experience and specifically designed for those without a computing background.

Solve real-life business problems with the University’s Research and Innovation Service (RIS), where you can assist businesses, from start-ups to established corporations, to up-skill and innovate.

Our faculty’s on-going industry interaction shapes course delivery and ensures you keep up to date with the latest trends and developments.

Engage in our Global Guest Speaker series, which draws in high-profile experts and business leaders from organisations such as TUI, the European Commission and the Association of Project Management (APM).

Take part in field visits to subject-relevant sites and exhibitions.

Develop key vocational skills such as strategic and analytic thinking; communication and negotiation; self-management; and effective leadership.