MSc International Business with Data Analytics with Advanced Practice

The MSc International Business with Data Analytics with Advanced Practice programme allows you to acquire mastery of both the macro and micro contexts of international business with a keener focus on e-business and data analytics.

The Advanced Practice offers you the opportunity to study a Masters with the addition of either an internship or applied consulting project and gain valuable workplace environment experience.

More specifically, you would enhance your ability to acquire, develop, and integrate international business theory whilst developing the skills to apply such theories in terms of international business practice and a greater appreciation of how digital aspects and data factors could affect business conduct.

Your final piece of work, either the Dissertation or Research Project, offers you the opportunity to investigate an area of data analytics relevant to international business. The Masters’ Dissertation option provides the opportunity to conceive, design and satisfactorily implement a substantial research project within the broad subject area of international business, whilst the Applied Research Project option enables students to apply the theoretical concepts encountered on the MSc International Business with Data Analytics programme and the practical experience gained from the Advanced Practice stage to a contemporary management issue.

Academic requirements

• A 2:2 (second class) honours degree or International equivalent

Non-standard entry

• In exceptional circumstances, if you do not meet the entry requirements above but have substantial and significant experiential learning, you may be able to apply as a non-standard applicant.

Alternatively, you may be eligible to study our Extended MSc International Business with Data Analytics with Advanced Practice which integrates our Graduate Certificate programme to allow entry for students with equivalent to a standard degree (third class, pass or ordinary). Upon successfully completing the Pre-masters Graduate Certificate with a minimum overall mark of 50%, you will be guaranteed progression onto the MSc International Business with Data Analytics with Advanced Practice.

English language requirements

Applicants must satisfy our general entry requirements as well as meeting specific requirements.

• You will need to provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English (GCSE grade 4 – previously grade C – or equivalent).

The general entry requirements are any of the following:

• IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5, or equivalent
• HKDSE English Language – Grade 4 overall with no less than 3 in any of the 4 sub-skills
• Indian Standard XII English – Minimum of 70% (in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) or Indian Certificate in Secondary Education (ICSE) only)
• WAEC – C6

If you do not have the required IELTS, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional programmes.

• If you have IELTS 5.5, with a maximum score of 5.0, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional Standard programme.
• If you have IELTS 5.0, with a maximum score of 4.5, you may be eligible to study on our Pre-Sessional Plus programme.

Student and employer needs are reflected in the development of this programme and evidenced in the career destinations and further development of our graduates. The nature of the provision is such that it equips individuals for employment in a wide range of international roles within the public and private sectors and a number of graduates are successful in gaining promotion in their chosen fields or alter their career paths on successful completion of the MSc International Business with Data Analytics.

A  number of graduates from the MSc International Business programme have progressed to undertake doctoral studies.