International Management Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

Overview

What you'll learn

• The International Management programme at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences is designed to enable graduates to transfer scientific knowledge from the various subject areas of the degree programme (e.g. management, economics) to business issues independently and responsibly.

• Creating a knowledge base for evidence-based practice: This includes transferable basic knowledge in various subject areas, as well as an understanding of principles and methods of scientific work and methodological/analytical skills as a basis for knowledge-based decisions.
• Problem-solving skills: Since unforeseen problems and conflicts are often encountered in business operations and processes, students are trained to recognise and analyse emerging problems and to develop specific solutions to resolve them. This includes the promotion of both individual and team-based analytical and decision-making skills, enhancing the further development and strengthening of problem-solving skills.
• Communication and cooperation skills: The smooth running of business processes requires the involvement of a multitude of stakeholders, some of them global, with different and sometimes very conflicting expectations. As a result, it is essential for students to acquire communication and cooperation skills, such as teamwork, mediation, negotiation and conflict management skills. In these contexts, a particular focus of this degree programme is on enabling students to apply these skills in English.
• Intercultural skills: Given that many companies operate in an international environment due to increasing globalisation, students initially acquire a sound and in-depth knowledge of foreign languages up to the level of negotiation skills in English and a very advanced level in a second foreign and specialist language of their choice. These language skills form the basis for their future work in an international environment. The focus is also on the acquisition of special intercultural knowledge in the context of political and economic knowledge of the relevant regions. This knowledge enables students to act prudently as part of a multicultural team.

•  Ability to take responsibility: Graduates of the degree programme need to be qualified to take responsibility in the context of the professional values of their occupation, so that they are capable of independently analysing and optimising business processes.

Employment prospects

The International Management programme at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences prepares students for professional activity in an internationally operating company or an international organisation. The course content is designed with this in mind. It includes business management training that is practice-based and scientifically sound.

Having acquired the following skills, graduates have good career prospects:

• Ability to analyse and solve problems in a professional and interdisciplinary context
• International, global thinking
• Communication skills in several foreign languages
• Personality development through the acquisition of key qualifications
• Intercultural skills
• In addition, graduates have the option of pursuing a Master’s programme, such as in International Business and Management, at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences