International Business

You’ll study your industry-accredited International Business degree at the world-renowned Leeds University Business School. This flexible course includes the opportunity to develop your practical skills during an optional year in industry, or to experience another culture by studying a year abroad at one of our many partner universities.

This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade and will provide you with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the core theories, practices and techniques of managing international business.

You’ll develop the knowledge, analytical and interpersonal skills needed to manage complex organisations across national borders, especially in international trade, foreign direct investment, licensing and franchising and international supply chain management.

Optional modules include topics such as managing global value chains and management decision-making, as well as a range of beginner’s language modules.

Shape your learning

This course allows you to tailor your studies to your specific interests and professional aspirations through pathways of modules in particular areas, which can be followed from year 2 through to your final year. This unique level of personalisation and self-direction offers you the flexibility to meet your career goals whilst helping you stand out from the crowd when you graduate.

The pathways available on this course are:

• Analytics

• Consulting

• Economics

• Enterprise and Innovation

• Marketing

• Ethics and Sustainability.

Why study at Leeds

• Benefit from the support of your Academic Personal Tutor, who will work in partnership with you to maximise your personal and professional development.

• Access to support from the Business School’s Employability and Opportunity team, who'll help you explore opportunities to develop your professional network and gain work experience.

• Develop your experience and boost your career prospects with our industrial placement opportunities or study abroad programmes at one of our many partner universities across the world.

• Benefit from research taking place at the world’s leading research centre for international business, the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds (CIBUL). Here, we unite leading global experts and work alongside major private companies and public sector bodies.

• Develop important research and analytical skills and apply these in your final year to a year-long project on an international business topic of your choice.

• In your final year, you'll gain essential practice for your career in the interactive International Strategic Management module, where you’ll put your learning into practice and make strategic decisions while taking part in live business simulations.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
• Association of MBAs
• European Quality Improvement System