Why study international business at Melbourne Business School?

1. Have an international experience while you study: Go on exchange with one of the University’s 200+ exchange partners, take an intensive subject overseas or complete a dual degree in Milan or Montreal.
2. Connect with industry: Complete an internship or a consulting subject to solve a real company problem in Melbourne, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur or London. Get involved in our simulation-based corporate strategy capstone subjects.
3. Specialise in international business while gaining skills in international relations: International Business students can take up to three elective subjects in the University’s Master of International Relations.
4. Leading reputation and global network: Melbourne is consistently ranked among the world's top universities for Business and Economics. The faculty has over 60,000 business alumni in over 100 countries connecting you to a valuable network of peers from all business disciplines right from day one.

What is it about?

The Melbourne Business School's Master of International Business will equip you with effective management skills for the international business sector.

Your knowledge and understanding will be developed through in-depth learning in areas such as:

• Strategic management
• Corporate governance in a global context
• Cross-cultural impacts
• Marketing in an international space

This course aims to provide you with wide ranging skills that will enhance your effectiveness as a manager working in international business. It provides a solid grounding in strategic thinking, relative to international and global market operations, and an understanding of how operating across borders impacts on functional areas (such as marketing, accounting, finance and HRM). This course should also develop an awareness of the policies governing the world trade and investment system, from the perspectives of a sovereign country, a regional trade bloc and a supra-national institutional (such as the IMF, World Bank and WTO). The course emphasises the Asia-Pacific region and pursues a cross disciplinary approach to analysing and solving complex problems.

You are also able to choose up to three electives from the Master of International Relations in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences or from within Melbourne Business School’s other early career Master’s programs. These electives are subject to receiving approval from the program director as well as the relevant subject coordinator.

Degree Structure

200 point program

The 200 Point Master of International Business consists of 16 subjects comprising:

• 4 foundation subjects
• 2 core subjects
• 5 discipline core
• 3 elective subjects
• 2 capstone subjects

150 point program

Students entering the Master of International Business with 50 points of advanced standing will need to successfully complete 12 x 12.5 point subjects comprising:

• 2 core subjects
• 5 discipline core
• 3 elective subjects
• 2 capstone subjects

Dual Degree Program

A limited number of places are available annually to high-achieving Master of International Business students. Eligible students who successfully complete a dual degree program will graduate with the Master of International Business from the University of Melbourne and either the MSc Marketing Management from Bocconi or the MSc Global Supply Chain Management from HEC Montreal.

It will take a student enrolled in the 150 point Master of International Business program, 2 years of full-time study to graduate with both qualifications (1 years at Melbourne, 1 year at the partner institution).

It will take a student enrolled in the 200 point Master of International Business program, 2.5 years of full-time study to graduate with both qualifications (1.5 years at Melbourne, 1 year at the partner institution).

Employment outcomes

Our graduates have gone on to some successful and varied careers. These are just some examples:

Within 1 year of graduating: Consultant, Capgemini

Within 2 years of graduating: Senior Analyst (Cooperation), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mauritius

Within 4 years of graduating: Senior Audit Associate at Deloitte, Macau

Within 4 years of graduating: Manager, Emerging Markets, Ausnet Services

Practical Skills

You will leave the degree with a number of core skills in the following areas:

• Business analysis and decision making
• Financial management
• Cooperation and conflict in world trade
• International marketing management
• Issues in managing the multinational
• Global corporate governance

You can also elect to develop skills in areas such as managing innovation and entrepreneurship and politics and business in post-Mao China.

Melbourne Business School students are also offered the opportunity to develop their employability skills through our Skills Workshops.

A qualification that can take you anywhere in the world - Dual Degree

Exclusive to the Master of International Business, our dual-degree program enables high-achieving students to undertake a year of international study, while gaining functional expertise in a related business discipline, signalling a commitment to a career in international business to prospective employers.

The University of Melbourne has agreements with prestigious partner institutions:

• Bocconi University in Milan, Italy
• HEC Montreal in Canada

2 Year Program (200 Points) Have completed an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in any discipline 1.5 Year Program (150 Points) Have completed an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in

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