MA (Hons) International Business Management with Enterprise

Course content

Year 1

Semester 1

• Management in a Global Context
• Introductory Economics
• Introduction to Accounting
• Elective

Semester 2

• Enterprise and its Business Environment
• Business Skills - Professional Development Track
• The Economy
• Introduction to Finance

Year 2

Semester 1

• Fundamentals of Marketing
• Human Resource Management
• Commercial Law
• Intercultural Issues in Business Management

Semester 2

• Operations Management
• Management Theories in Practice - Professional Development Track
• Enterprise: Concepts and Issues
• Option or elective

Optional courses available include Business Entities, Organisational Behaviour, Marketing Perspectives.

Year 3

Semester 1

• Business Research Methods
• Business Venturing
• Option
• Option or elective

Semester 2

• Strategic Management
• Business Analysis and Consultancy - Professional Development Track
• Innovation Management
• Option or elective

Optional courses available include Project Management, Employment Law, Employment Relations, Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Communications.

Year 4

Semester 1

• International Business
• International Entrepreneurship
• Option

Semester 2

• Approved Enterprise Option
• Global Trends and Ethics - Professional Development Track
• Marketing and Management in SMES or High Growth Companies

Across both semesters

• Business Project

Approved Enterprise options include Business Ethics; High Growth Companies; Marketing & Management in SMEs; Social Enterprise; Changing Trends in Employment.

Optional courses available include Logistics; International Business Law; Diversity Management; Management Science; Digital Marketing; and Company Law.

Employability

Work and study

This is what our MA (Hons) International Business Management with Enterprise students are doing six months after graduating:

• 77% are working
• 8% are studying
• 3% are working and studying.

Managerial/professional position

• 76% of those working are in a professional/managerial position six months after graduating.

Salary

• The average salary of students six months after graduating: £24000
• The average UK salary of students six months after graduating from a similar course: £20000

Jobs

These are the most common jobs students go into six months after graduating:

• Business and public service associate professionals
• Business, research and administrative professionals
• Managers, directors and senior officials
• Administrative occupations
• Sales occupations
• Information technology and telecommunications professionals
• Elementary occupations

Entry requirements

Year 1

• Highers AAAB (over two sittings)
• A-Levels BBB
• Int. Baccalaureate 29 points
• HNC B in a graded unit

Year 2

• Advanced Highers BB in relevant subjects, plus AAAB at Higher.
• A-Levels ABB in relevant subjects.
• Int. Baccalaureate 34 points
• HNC HNC Business. A in graded unit.
• HND HND Business. BB in graded units.

Year 3

• HND HND Business. AA in graded units.

Additional information

• Intermediate 2 / National 5 / GCSE English and Mathematics are required for all Business Management courses.
• BTEC Relevant BTEC qualifications are accepted; please contact Admissions Tutor for further details.

Fees

* Your residency 'status' is usually defined as the country where you have been ordinarily resident for the three years before the start of your course. Find out more about tuition fees.

** European Union countries (not including England, Northern Ireland or Wales).

*** 'Rest of the UK' (RUK) students entering at Level 1 receive a fee waiver of one year's tuition fee. Normally this will be the final year, or a year during which students study abroad (either at a partnership institution, or at one of Heriot-Watt's overseas campuses).

Scholarships and bursaries

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