Master of Science in International Business and Trade

The programme aims at providing advanced training within the fields of international business and international trade from an economic and/or a legal/institutional perspective. The rationale of the programme is the continuous internationalization and globalization processes of domestic economies, and the changing requirements from national and supranational decision levels to face the new situation of the gradual emergence of global production and trade networks within all sectors of the economy.

It takes an interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing methods of business environment analysis, theories of the strategic management of transnational corporations with the analysis of the legal framework of international trade and foreign direct investment, including multilateral, regional and bilateral approaches to international trade negotiations, as well as internationally recognized codes of conduct related to TNCs.

Possible specializations within the programme include courses in International Marketing, Managing Knowledge in a Global Context, Managing Across Cultures, WTO Law, Export Law and Arbitration, Trade Finance and International Business in a Historical Perspective. This programme can also be seen as a continuation of those undergraduate programmes which offer a specialization in European and Asian languages (French, German, Spanish, Madarin Chinese and Japanese). In such cases the additional objective is to further enhance written and spoken abilities in respective language, and to provide further opportunities of field work in the relevant language environment at respected European and Asian universities and business schools. The courses within the European specialization track include modules in European economic and political integration, Marketing and management in the single European Market, as well as European private law, while those specialising in Asia can choose modules containing Asian economic and political integration or International business in Asian Emerging Markets.

The applicant must hold the minimum of a Bachelors degree, i.e. the equivalent of 180 higher education credits (HEC) at an accredited university (all credits need to be from an accredited university). The university education must include: a minimum of 90 HEC in a major subject, a thesis, term paper or equivalent proof of proficiency in academic writing, a minimum of 15 HEC in Statistics, or equal qualifications as assessed by the Graduate School. All applicants are required to submit results of the GMAT. You must also prove English proficiency by one of the following: TOEFL IBT (internet based) at least 100 points, TOEFL (computer based) at least 240 points, TOEFL (paper based) at least 570 points, IELTS minimum score 6.0 with no individual score below 6.0. This requirement does not apply to students with a Bachelors Degree, based upon at least 3 years of full-time studies, from an education with English as the only language of instruction (with the exception of students from Pakistan and Bangladesh), or to students having passed English level B at the Swedish Upper Secondary School. All students need to send in proof of English proficiency. The university education must include a minimum of 60 HEC in one of the following subject areas: Business Administration, Economics, Economic Geography or Economic History.

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