This course is specially designed to help you top-up your foundation degree, Higher National Diploma (HND) or business subject equivalent. Over this one year period, you’ll develop skills that will prepare you for a role in international business management.
The key areas you’ll focus on includes organisation, strategy, international business and management. Depending on your preference, you could specialise in project management, international finance and trade, or even learn a new language – an incredibly useful skill when working as a manager in a multinational company.
You’ll be specially trained to manage business across cultures. As consultants the teaching staff on this course have improved competitiveness and productivity as well as bilingual business psychology. By combining business strategy with cross-cultural fluency, we’ve created a unique course that will help to give you an advantage against other graduates.
The Placements and Employability Unit is our dedicated work placement office that can help you get work experience in the roles you want. You’ll build upon the academic skills you already know, and future employers will be impressed to see this experience on your CV.
Assessment
You are assessed through a variety of methods including coursework, portfolio work, problem-solving case studies and individual and group research projects, as well as a final dissertation or project. This range of assessment methods ensures you have a ready supply of thinking strategies to apply to any international business management issue.
Modular structure
The modules listed below are for the academic year 2018/19 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.
- Business without Frontiers (core, 15 credits)
- Management Dissertation (core, 30 credits)
- Organising and Managing Across Cultures (core, 15 credits)
- Strategy: Choices and Change (core, 30 credits)
- Achieve Your Potential (alternative core, 15 credits)
- Business Writing and Communication (option, 15 credits)
- Creating a Winning Business 2 (option, 15 credits)
- Economics of Multinational Business (option, 15 credits)
- International Trade and Finance (option, 15 credits)
- Learning through Work 2 (option, 15 credits)
- Managing Corporate Reputation (option, 15 credits)
- Project Management (option, 15 credits)
- Quantitative Data Analysis (option, 15 credits)
What our students say
“I was anxious about the whole journey, but it proved to be a great decision that changed my life entirely. Soon after I started my first set of modules, I knew the styles and methods of teaching practiced by the lecturers suited my personal style – very practical and everything explained with real life examples. I made tons of great friends on London Met, and three of them later become my business partners.”
Ondrej Mrklas, Company Director of Czech Industry Company, 2015
“The course I’m doing has been extremely rewarding and greatly helped me to achieve my potential. The international aspects of the courses have been especially interesting.”
National Student Survey
After the course
This course can help you on your way to beginning your management career in multinational organisations, preparing you for entry onto a graduate training scheme. Many of our graduates now work in managerial roles for multinationals such as Zara and Thomson Reuters, and have even become directors of their own companies. For example, Ondrej Mrklas is in charge of the Czech Industry Company and heads up two more companies in China and Singapore with other London Met graduates.
This course is also excellent preparation for further study or research in both universities and specialist institutions.
