皇家墨爾本理工大學

Gain the skills to manage and lead

In this four-year degree you will have the opportunity to integrate work with your learning activities through the cooperative education program – a compulsory paid industry placement undertaken during the third year.

Your career in international business

Understanding international business is becoming increasingly necessary for managers in all organisations in the context of growing globalisation, and having international skills is now an organisational imperative. International business graduates will be equipped with the skills to build a successful career across corporate/business sectors, government, third sector, and consultancy in Australia and overseas.

Why study international business?

RMIT's Bachelor of Business (International Business) (Applied) offers students the opportunity to gain practical workplace experience with a one year professional placement.

Improve your skills

This degree focuses on developing your skills in cross-cultural management as you learn about core business issues relating to financial markets, international trade and global logistics and supply chain management.

Advance your career

Having a specialist on hand who has international skills to transact business across borders is essential. Our degree is designed to produce graduates who can think critically about managing international business responsibly, and sustainably.

Grow your network

Start building your professional network while you study through the one year work placement or by participating in overseas exchanges, study tours and project work that will see you collaborating with students and geographic borders.

What you will study

Discover the connections between business disciplines and how they translate into organisational practices. You'll also explore how creative problem-solving and innovation can help organisations achieve sustainable competitive advantage in the face of risk and uncertainty.

Throughout your studies you will collaborate with peers and engage meaningfully with industry through small group projects, simulation exercises and a long-term industry placement. You can even learn or work overseas as part of your studies.

Core studies include:

Financial markets
Economics and global trade operations
Cross cultural management
Socially responsible management
Political economy
Design thinking and innovation

International business equips you with the ability to manage, analyse and interpret the complex nature of global organisations.

RMIT’s international business degree provides both breadth and depth of knowledge across a number of business disciplines. The course enables you to develop an understanding of core business issues relating to financial markets, international trade, and global logistics and supply chain management, and to develop skills in cross-cultural management.

In addition, you will learn how to think critically about managing international business responsibly, and sustainably, about design and entrepreneurship, and gain insights into the institutional roles of business that reveal how the global political economy shapes, and is shaped by, international business organisations.

You will graduate with the skills to build a successful career across corporate/business sectors, government, third sector, and consultancy in Australia and overseas.

Career

RMIT's aim is for international business graduates to become better global citizens because they have benefited from examining business practices through a global lens, and through a socially responsible business lens. You will emerge with an understanding of how various activities within and between organisations and industry sectors are connected.