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MSc Development and International Business

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    MSc 1 year full time, 2 years part time

Course Description

Explore the changing relationship between states and markets. In recent years, interest in the relationship between international business and global development has increased. On this programme exploring business and global development, you will study the politics of development, foreign direct investment, and international institutions of global political-economic governance.

Why this programme

  • A joint programme, taught in partnership with the School of Business and Management
  • Gain an advanced theoretical grounding in the core aspects of business and international development, considering its history and politics and its growing internationalisation
  • Gain insight into global working lives, economic restructuring, migrant labour, multinational companies, work, geo-politics, industrialisation, and international development
  • Conduct independent field-based research in diverse locations

Entry Requirements

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level in a relevant subject.

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Programme Funding

There are a number of ways you can fund your postgraduate degree.

  • Scholarships and bursaries
  • Postgraduate loans (UK students)
  • Country-specific scholarships for international students

Student Destinations

This programme will prepare you for a broad range of careers but will specifically deliver the research skills and substantive knowledge required by multinational businesses, social enterprises, NGOs, development organisations and government departments. Previous graduates have gone onto work in business consultancies, development charities, commodity supply chains, national governments departments and financial trading.

Module Details

  • Three compulsory modules
  • Four elective modules
  • Compulsory 15,000-word dissertation

Compulsory/Core modules

  • World Economy and Development
  • Research Design and Methods
  • Retheorising Global Development
  • Dissertation 12,000 Words

Elective modules

  • Migration and Mobilities
  • Economics of Development
  • Multinationals and Global Business
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Strategic Management
  • Global working lives

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