MSc International Business with Work Placement Year

Program Overview

The MSc International Business with Work Placement Year program at SOAS equips students with a comprehensive understanding of global business strategies and societal challenges. Through core modules in international management, marketing, and strategy, students develop critical perspectives on multinational and small businesses. Optional modules allow for specialization in areas such as Chinese markets, cultural intelligence, and macroeconomic policy. The program fosters cultural intelligence and prepares graduates for careers in global firms, start-ups, or international trade and investment policy.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The MSc International Business with Work Placement Year program at SOAS provides students with a foundation in corporate strategy and actions to address societal challenges in global markets. The program fosters individual cultural intelligence for effective communication, negotiation, and work in multicultural business environments. It prepares graduates for careers in global firms, start-ups, or international trade and investment policy. Interactive teaching and learning allow students to develop critical perspectives on the changing dynamics of multinational and small businesses and their external environments.

Outline:

The program comprises 180 credits, encompassing 120 taught credits from core, compulsory, and optional modules and a 60-credit dissertation. The core modules include:

• Dissertation in International Business (60 credits)
• International Management (15 credits)
• International Marketing (15 credits)
• International Business Strategy (15 credits)
• Multinationals and Global Business (15 credits)
Compulsory modules include:
• International Human Resource Management (15 credits)
• Research Methods (15 credits)
Optional modules (select 30 credits):
• Understanding the Chinese Market (15 credits)
• Consumer Behaviour (15 credits)
• International Corporate Finance (15 credits)
• Cultural Intelligence and Global Business Communication (15 credits)
• Contemporary Issues in the Japanese and Korean Economies (15 credits)
• Macroeconomic Policy and Financial markets (15 credits)
• Corporate governance (15 credits)
• Applied Econometrics for Management and Finance (15 credits)

Teaching:

Masters programs (with the exception of two-year full-time MAs) consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits.

Careers:

Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.

Other:

• The program is open to graduates from any discipline.
• SOAS is ranked 38th in the UK for Accounting and Finance (Complete University Guide 2023).
• The School of Finance and Management is ranked 6th in UK for graduate employability (QS World University Rankings 2023).

Home student fees: £15,130 (+£1,385 placement year fee) Overseas student fees: £25,740 (+£1,385 placement year fee) Please note that fees go up each year.