The Master of International Business is a postgraduate degree designed to develop the capabilities and resources of managers in the global economy

Economic globalization

Economic globalization refers to increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, service, technology and capital...

. It is ideal for those seeking to establish or accelerate a career in international business

International Business

International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...

.

The origins of this type of program go back to the creation in 1946 of the American Institute of Foreign Trade, known today as Thunderbird School of Global Management

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Thunderbird School of Global Management is a private business school whose main campus is located in Glendale, Arizona. Founded in 1946 by retired U.S...

, in Glendale, Arizona. Thunderbird's program was referred to as a Master of International Management until 2000, when it adopted the MBA in Global Management denomination. The structure of the program combined international business, international political economy, and learning of languages and world cultures. Other similar programs are now offered by a range of business schools under a variety of denominations.

Emphasizing the practical application of specialized knowledge, the program equips management with skills tailored to the international business

International Business

International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary...

 environment.

The Master of International Business focuses on strategic planning for international operations and provides an in-depth understanding of the organizational capabilities required for international operations, including specialized functions such as international marketing

Marketing

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

, finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 and human resource management

Human resource management

Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...

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The degree may be thought of as an MBA with a particular focus on multinational corporations.

The standard degree abbreviations for this qualification are MIntBus, MBus (IntBus) or MIB.

Admission

Admission normally requires an undergraduate degree

Undergraduate degree

An undergraduate degree is a colloquial term for an academic degree taken by a person who has completed undergraduate courses. It is usually offered at an institution of higher education, such as a university...

 in any discipline, the equivalent of two years full time work in a role that has an international focus, a personal statement and a successful GMAT/GRE

Graduate Record Examination

The Graduate Record Examinations is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States, in other English-speaking countries and for English-taught graduate and business programs world-wide...

 score.

Course Structure

The course structure is modelled on that of the MBA program.

The course is normally offered as a 16 subject program that would take two years of full time study or four years of part time study to complete.

Students who meet certain prerequisites may be able to undertake the degree as a 12 subject program. In this case, there would be an expectation of completion within 18 months if studying full time or three years if studying part time.

Australia

• The Australian National University
• Southern Cross University
  Southern Cross University
  Southern Cross University is a university based on the North and Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is a regional University with more than 14,000 students. The University's primary campus is in Lismore, with other campuses located at Coffs Harbour and Tweed Heads.The University is...
  
  
• Swinburne University of Technology
  Swinburne University of Technology
  Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public dual sector university based in Melbourne, Victoria. The institution was founded by the Honourable George Swinburne in 1908 and achieved university status in June 1992...
  
  
• University of Melbourne
  University of Melbourne
  The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
  
  
• Monash University
  Monash University
  Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
  
  
• La Trobe University
  La Trobe University
  La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
  
  
• Macquarie University
  Macquarie University
  Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
  
  
• University of South Australia
  University of South Australia
  The University of South Australia is a public university in the Australian state of South Australia. It was formed in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology and Colleges of Advanced Education. It is the largest university in South Australia, with more than 36,000...
  
  
• Griffith University
  Griffith University
  Griffith University is a public, coeducational, research university located in the southeastern region of the Australian state of Queensland. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast, Logan City and in the Brisbane suburbs of Mount Gravatt, Nathan and South Bank. Current...
  
  
• Queensland University of Technology
  Queensland University of Technology
  Queensland University of Technology is an Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in Brisbane, it has 40,000 students, including 6,000 international students, over 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget of more than A$750 million.QUT is marketed as "A...
  
  
• University of the Sunshine Coast
  University of the Sunshine Coast
  The University of the Sunshine Coast is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Having opened in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College with 524 students, the institution was renamed the University of the Sunshine Coast in 1999. In 2011, the student body was...
  
  
• University of Canberra
  University of Canberra
  Over the years the Stone Day program has gradually become larger and larger, taking up a whole week and now Stonefest is one of Australia's most popular music festivals. The first foundation celebrations were held in 1971. In 1973 Stone Day celebrations were held over two days, which was expanded...
  
  
• University of Western Sydney
  University of Western Sydney
  The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  
• University of Sydney
  University of Sydney
  The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
  
  
• Curtin University
• Edith Cowan University
  Edith Cowan University
  Edith Cowan University is located in Perth, Western Australia. It was named after the first woman to be elected to an Australian Parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman....
  
  
• International College of Management, Sydney
  International College of Management, Sydney
  The International College of Management, Sydney is a business school and the satellite campus of Macquarie University. Courses at ICMS are built on the strong belief that learning should combine practical work and a strong theoretical foundation and all undergraduate courses include nine months of...
  
  
• Deakin University
  Deakin University
  Deakin University is an Australian public university with nearly 40,000 higher education students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835...
  
  
• University of Newcastle, Australia
  University of Newcastle, Australia
  The University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales...
  
  
• University of Tasmania
  University of Tasmania
  The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...
  
  
• University of New England (Australia)
  University of New England (Australia)
  The University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
  
  
• University of Wollongong
  University of Wollongong
  The University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
  
  

India

• Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
• Delhi School of Economics
  Delhi School of Economics
  Delhi School of Economics , commonly referred to as DSE or D School, is a centre of post graduate learning of the University of Delhi. The centre is situated in the university's North Campus in Maurice Nagar, and is surrounded by a host of other prestigious academic institutions of the country...
  
  
• Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan
• PSG CAS
• St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
  St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
  St. Joseph's College , Bangalore is one of the oldest colleges in the State of Karnataka with a history of more than 125 years behind it. It imparts graduate, post-graduate and research education while searching, renewing and expanding itself, attempting to be ever relevant to the changing...
  
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• Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore
• Saraswathi Thiyagaraja College, Pollachi
• Pondicherry University, Pondy
• University Of Salford
  University of Salford
  The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
  
  
• University Of Rajasthan
  University of Rajasthan
  University of Rajasthan is the oldest university in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was set up on 8 January 1947 as the University of Rajputana and was given its current name in 1956.- Introduction :...
  
  
• HNB GARHWAL UNIVERSITY,SRI NAGAR (UK)
• Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore
• GRD, Coimbatore
• Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi
• Indian Insitute of Foreign Trade, Delhi and Kolkata
• Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune
• Gitam School of international business, Visakhapatnam
• VLB Janakiammal college of arts and science, coimbatore
• Badhruka institute of foreign trade
• Institute of management studies , dehradun

Malaysia

• Monash University Malaysia
• Nottingham University Malaysia
• SEGi University College
  SEGi University College
  SEGi University College, founded in 1977 as Systematic College, is located in Kuala Lumpur.SEGi University College is a private university college in Malaysia with more than 23,000 students at its campus in UEP Subang Jaya, Kota Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Sarawak.SEGi University College...
  
  

United States

• Florida International University
  Florida International University
  Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
  
  
• Nova Southeastern University
  Nova Southeastern University
  Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian, research university located in Broward County, Florida, with its main campus in the town of Davie...
  
  
• Georgia State University
  Georgia State University
  Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...
  
  
• Hawai'i Pacific University
• Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School is a business school with operations in the Boston area, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai, offering several business-related degree programs, including MBA, Master and undergraduate degrees.The school is accredited by the New England Association of...
  
  
• Seattle University
  Seattle University
  Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member...
  
  
• Jones International University
• Saint Louis University
  Saint Louis University
  Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...
  
  
• Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
  Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
  Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is a private, comprehensive, coeducational university with an undergraduate campus in the city of Winona, Minnesota, United States...
  
  
• Thunderbird School of Global Management
  Thunderbird School of Global Management
  Thunderbird School of Global Management is a private business school whose main campus is located in Glendale, Arizona. Founded in 1946 by retired U.S...
  
  
• Tufts University
  Tufts University
  Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
  
  
• University of Florida
  University of Florida
  The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
  
  
• University of Memphis
  University of Memphis
  The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
  
  
• University of South Carolina
  University of South Carolina
  The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...
  
  
• Northeastern University

Europe

• Swiss Hotel Management School
  Swiss Hotel Management School
  The Swiss Hotel Management School is Switzerland's largest English-speaking hotel management school. SHMS provides an international programme through a mixture of courses and practical internships. The school offers various programs other than the basic Bachelor's Degree in International...
  
   - University Centre
• University of Leeds
  University of Leeds
  The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
  
  
• EM Strasbourg Business School (École de management Strasbourg)
• ESG Management School
• HEC School of Management, Paris
• Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School is a business school with operations in the Boston area, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai, offering several business-related degree programs, including MBA, Master and undergraduate degrees.The school is accredited by the New England Association of...
  
  
• Paris Dauphine University
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
• Liverpool Hope University
  Liverpool Hope University
  Liverpool Hope University is a university in Liverpool, England. Two of its three founding colleges were established in 1844 and 1856, the third opening in the 1960s. It is the only ecumenical university in Europe. Based on two campuses, the main campus is located in Childwall and the second...
  
  
• TASMAC London School of Business.(MBA:International Business)
• Grenoble Graduate School of Business
  Grenoble Graduate School of Business
  Grenoble Graduate School of Business is an educational institution within Grenoble Ecole de Management; it is internationally focussed, and is the English language division of the business school...
  
  
• IÉSEG School of Management
  IESEG School of Management
  IESEG is a business school located in Lille, France, and part of the Université Catholique de Lille. IESEG stands for Institut d'Économie Scientifique Et de Gestion ....
  
  
• Montpellier Ecole Superieure de Commerce
• Keele University
  Keele University
  Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...
  
  
• Northampton University
• EENI- The Global Business School
• University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
• Maastricht University
• Aarhus School of Business
  Aarhus School of Business
  Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University is a business school in Aarhus, Denmark. It offers both undergraduate and graduate level studies in areas such as Business, Management, Economics, Business Language, and Law....
  
  
• University of Applied Sciences Berlin - HTW Berlin
• London School of Business and Finance
  London School of Business and Finance
  The London School of Business and Finance is a business school based in London, United Kingdom. It offers Master's degrees programmes in management and finance; bachelor degrees; executive and corporate training; and professional qualification training for the ACCA, CFA, CIM and CIMA qualifications...
  
  
• International University in Geneva
  International University in Geneva
  International University in Geneva is a private university founded in 1997 and located in Geneva, Switzerland.-History & Mission:Founded with the aim of providing a multicutural education and incorporated as a not-for-profit Swiss Private Foundation in 1997, its first president was David Williamson...
  
  
• INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KYIV NATIONAL TARAS SHEVCHENKO UNIVERSITY
• Copenhagen Business School
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is a privately-owned Catholic university founded in 1921 by Agostino Gemelli. Its main campus is located in Milan, Italy with satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome, and Campobasso...
  
  
• UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School , University college Dublin , Ireland

Middle East

• Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School
  Hult International Business School is a business school with operations in the Boston area, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai, offering several business-related degree programs, including MBA, Master and undergraduate degrees.The school is accredited by the New England Association of...
  
  
• Zayed University
  Zayed University
  Zayed University , established in 1998, is the newest of the three government sponsored higher educational institutions in the United Arab Emirates. The other two institutions are the Higher Colleges of Technology established in 1988 and the United Arab Emirates University established in 1976...
  
  
• Heriot-Watt University
  Heriot-Watt University
  Heriot-Watt University is a university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The name commemorates George Heriot, the 16th century financier to King James, and James Watt, the great 18th century inventor and engineer....