International Business Maynooth University

Overview

Students learn how organisations of all sizes internationalise their operations to exploit opportunities in the global market. This International Business degree from Maynooth University is ideal for students with a global outlook who wish to work either in local firms competing abroad or in subsidiaries of foreign multinationals, located either here or abroad. 

Key Features

• To live and work effectively within the global economy, an understanding of the theory and practice of international business management is essential.

• Students develop key skills for lifelong learning, including how to analyse and think critically about solving business problems in an international environment.

• The people, cultural, operational, and marketing insights provided by studying International Business are critical to understanding the process of internationalising, managing diverse teams within and across business units, and responding to a range of international customers as well as the social, economic, political, legal and technological changes.

• International Business students at Maynooth are offered unrivalled choice and flexibility. This course offer modules that will develop both core business management knowledge as well as modules that provide a more specialist understanding of the international aspects of business.
• International Business students also have the option of taking a four year degree with a work placement or study year abroad, thus combining what you learn in university with insights into industry or another culture.

Career Options

• This degree equips graduates with the skills necessary to be employed by multi-national companies, work in different countries, offering a range of exciting experiences, new knowledge, and other benefits that enhance careers. Today's business world transcends traditional borders and business is conducted differently in different cultures. The broad range of business skills and topics studied in this degree can lead to just about any career.

• Graduates will be well suited to employment in the Irish operation of a major multinational, working with Irish companies who supply to international customers, helping organisations to internationalise and grow, managing a diverse workforce and supply chain operations. Opportunities at a policy level, working for national organisations to promote Ireland as a destination for inward investment, for internationalising Irish business and for multinational operations in other countries exist.

• Many of the students continue to further postgraduate study in a very wide range of Business, Accounting and Finance subjects at Maynooth University.