Degree Programme in International Business in a Nutshell | Profile of the Degree Programme in International Business | Key learning outcomes of the Degree Programme | Professional growth | Curriculum

Degree Programme in International Business in a Nutshell

Profile of the Degree Programme in International Business

Bachelors of Business Administration have strong professional skills in the following fields:

• Communication Skills
• Operational Environment
• Production and Selling of Services
• Social and Collaboration Skills
• Business and Entrepreneurial Skills

Communication Skills are about learning to communicate in a professional way, using appropriate software. Compulsory language studies of Finnish students are made up of English and Swedish, as well as another foreign language whereas international students study English and Finnish. Written communication skills are important but also oral skills are practised a lot as they play an important role in successful business operations.

Operational Environment stresses the importance of knowing the factors that influence actions and analyses methods necessary to develop destinations and business companies. Students know how to utilise the new opportunities brought about by the economic, legal and social operational environment in a global context.

Production and Sales of Services comprise the principles of practical sales and service jobs, customer relationship management and development, as well as the production and development of services. Students manage the opportunities offered by digital media in marketing and sales.

Social and Collaboration Skills mean both self-steering and leadership skills that are practised by taking different roles in different projects. Students learn to apply leadership and development theories to enhance operations. The role of networking in business also becomes clear, as well as the need to constantly develop these networks.

Business and Entrepreneu-rial Skills teach the students to construct, assess and develop business activity and business processes. Students develop an entrepreneurial attitude and learn to create concepts and internationalisation processes for the needs of businesses.

With the help of the above-mentioned knowledge, skills and methods the students acquire the most common meta-skills needed in the job market, project management, research and development, coaching, creative problem solving and innovation.

Key learning outcomes of the Degree Programme

Upon graduation, Bachelors of Business Administration are capable of acting professionally, applying the principles of co-production in different work life and regional development projects. Graduates know how to critically assess the aims, ways of implementation and results of the project, and can utilise the documentation of the project when developing its operations. They can plan, implement and evaluate research and development tasks independently and as part of a team. They can confidently choose the research approach and method regarding the research and development plan at hand, and are able to assess the results.

Graduates have a constructive attitude towards their own work and time management even in changing and uncertain situations. They strengthen their professional skills and the professional identity, and exceed the limits of their own skills and thinking in the ever changing and unpredictable work life. They are responsible members of different teams, partnerships and interest groups and are able to plan for them, organise and develop them using evaluation and feedback. They have networking skills and know how to develop their role in networks.

Graduates are able to apply different creative and predictive methods in a flexible way and know how to develop them further to suit their own activities. They have an entrepreneurial attitude that helps develop and shape ideas into products. They can create co-production models and methods that support innovative operations.

Graduates from the Degree Programme in International Business can work in expert positions and as entrepreneurs.  They understand the operational processes of companies and organisations and know how to put them into practice. They are customer-oriented, have networking skills and are constructive team members.  Bachelors of Business Administration have versatile service business and business operation skills. They show a good entrepreneurial acumen in all activities.

Business graduates are able to construct, evaluate and develop business activity and business processes, including business concepts and internationalisation. The working languages of Finnish graduates are the two domestic languages and two foreign languages. International graduates operate in English, their native language and Finnish.

Professional studies in the Degree Programme in International Business focus on International Marketing. Another area of specialisation is Event Planning and Management. Both specialisations aim at domestic and in-ternational markets.

Professional growth

Students develop their professional skills and the generic meta-competences needed in work life through the following three phases: adaptation, application and development. The competences and skills of the students develop in an integrated way when they work in projects that provide increasing challenge as the studies advance.

All students with Finnish educational background are expected to spend one semester of studies or the work placement period abroad to enhance their preparedness for international challenges.

Curriculum

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