
Online Master in International Business
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
28 Jan 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 9,000
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The Online Official Master's Degree in International Business is a program that gives you the necessary tools to lead the strategy and operation of the business in the international market. Learn to analyze business opportunities in each market and sector so as to internationalize a company and develop in international business thanks to the knowledge acquired concerning international financial organizations and regional economic integration organizations.
Design your company's international strategy with the help of everything you learn about international marketing, international human resource management, and international business culture. You will also learn how logistics and transport are managed, customs, incoterms, and everything related to international finance and taxation.
By means of three geographical seminars in the master's, you will specialize in the detection and development of business opportunities in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Why choose this program
Develop an international vision
Through specialization seminars, you will learn to identify, analyse and develop business opportunities in the Asian, European and Latin American markets, and be able to understand how the socioeconomic framework of those continents works.
Learn from experts
You can count on academics and professionals from the Pompeu Fabra University, the Observatory of Relations with Latin America and renowned companies and institutions, who will help you acquire practical knowledge of business.
Take advantage of extracurricular internships
You will have the possibility of putting into practice the knowledge acquired in companies such as Almirall, Alcatel-Lucent España, Nestle Purina Petcare España, Pimec, Marítima Tuscor Lloyds or Hall Street Barcelona, among others.
Improve your management skills
You will acquire collaborative skills for working in a team and lead your company's projects in the foreign market.
Practice with the Business Game
Through the Business Game, you will be able to put into practice the strategic decisions of your company in a simulator, exploring all avenues of an international project.
International recognition
Studying at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
Accreditations
UPF Barcelona School of Management is the management school of Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Ibero-American university and the 16th-placed university in the world, among those under 50 years of age, according to the Times Higher Education ranking.
UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally, and places itself among the top business schools in the world.
The Online Master in International Business has AMBA accreditation from the Association of MBAs, which recognizes UPF-BSM for its academic quality and reputation.
Ideal Students
The master's is aimed at international business professionals who want to update their knowledge, as well as university graduates and higher graduates, especially in the areas of business administration, economics, law and engineering, who have a minimum of approximately 2 years of relevant professional experience.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education, or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Merit-Based Scholarship
Apply for our Merit-Based Scholarship, awarded to those who prove they have talent and motivation.
Grants and discounts
Alumni discounts
If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.
UPF Employee Discounts
If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belong to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.
External financial aid
A large number of external entities and institutions offer financial aid options to students who want to enrol in one of our master's programs and postgraduate courses.
UPF Partner Universities Discount
Check if the university where you took your undergraduate studies is a UPF partner university and obtain a 10% discount on your master's tuition fees.
*Discount not compatible with other scholarships, discounts, and reductions.
Curriculum
The Master in International Business is structured in 4 large modules and an international trip so that the student can experience first-hand how large multinationals create their international strategies.
International Environment: Economic intelligence and institutional framework
- International economic, social and political environment
- International Economy
- Market research and sector analysis
- Institutional framework of regional economic integration processes
Strategy
- International strategy of companies
- International Marketing
- Culture, international company organization
- International human resources management
- Strategic decision simulation game (Business Game)
Foreign Trade Operation
- Logistics and international transport
- Incoterms, customs and international contracts
- International finance, accounting and international taxation
- Specialization seminar
- International Academic Week
Transversality
- Managerial skills
- Master's Final Task
Complementary activities
The Online Master in International Business also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
Career Opportunities
The Online Master's Degree in International Business enables you to develop a professional career in export departments of companies with international activity, as well as in export management, trading companies, customs and international logistics.
- International business department of a multinational company
- Company export and import department
- Public institutions and private consultancies in the field of business internationalization
- Creation of your own trade company