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International Business & Economic Development – (M.Sc.)

University of Glasgow

Business School
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Location: Glasgow / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
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  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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Location of University of Glasgow

MSc: 12 months full-time

* You will develop knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines crucial to international business, including strategic management, business finance, the global business environment and cross-cultural management.
* You will develop knowledge and skills in relation to the key drivers of economic development at a national, regional and local level, the linkages between these and you will learn to formulate and critically evaluate practical measures for development regional and local economies.
* Your specialist skills will be honed through work experience and guided self-evaluation and you will learn to formulate and critically evaluate practical measures for developing regional and local economies
* In the most recent independent review of research quality (RAE 2008), 85% of management research was classed as of international quality, with 10% being world leading.
* The University of Glasgow Business School is an accredited member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.


Contents

For the MSc you will take seven core courses, three optional courses and submit a dissertation. The courses will combine lectures, seminars, workshops, case analyses and project work.

Core courses

* International strategic management
* Business finance
* Global business environment
* Managing across cultures & comparative management
* Economic development in practice
* Strategic approaches to delivering economic development
* Research methods.

Optional courses

* Developing competitive places in global, national and regional contexts
* Developing key sectors to deliver economic development
* Skills, human resource development and economic development
* Business development and its contribution to economic development
* Partnership and collaborative working for economic development.

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Requirements

A 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent in a social science discipline plus three years management experience in a professional setting.

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