Bachelor of Arts in Global Trade Management – classic/cooperative

The global world economy opens up a wide range of perspectives for companies. It is important to use the opportunities of global trade and know the framework and restrictions of foreign exchange. The Global Trade Management course opens up many career opportunities for you. Companies are looking for employees who know the global economic interdependence and framework conditions and see it as an opportunity.

You are active in purchasing and in addition to supplying parts, you are also responsible for the production

• legally secure import and/or export processing,
• the currency and commodity risks and
• the global, potential procurement markets in view.

You work for a chamber of commerce or foreign trade and have the right information for commercial companies

• customs tariffs and preferential regulations,
• Trends and development opportunities in certain economic areas and
• Best practices in the competitive environment at hand.

You work as an analyst in a strategy consultancy and provide support to your clients

• in the optimization and digitization of your processes,
• in the analysis of global procurement and sales markets or
• make an important contribution to strategy development in order to successfully assert oneself in the international competitive environment.

Practical Course: optional - 20 weeks abroad (study period 6 semesters without work placement)

1 ǀ Semesters 1-4: Instruction in the fundamentals of business administration and languages

The fundamentals of the first four semesters include classic business administration subjects such as

• General Business Administration
• Economics
• accounting
• International Business Administration (emphasis on foreign trade)
• Communication subjects back the business administration foundation:

Additional supplementary modules (mathematics, statistics, etc.) also serve to build up the basics

2 ǀ Semester 5: Practical semester abroad (optional)

The fifth credit semester is designed as an optional practical enrolled semester. It comprises a continuous period of at least 20 weeks and is to be completed in a company abroad. The goal is to apply this fundamental business administration knowledge and these foreign language skills in practice for the first time and translate these in terms of professional qualification.

3 | Semester 6/7: Specialization and bachelor thesis (semester abroad possible)

After the fundamentals are applied for the first time in the practical semester, students have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in the last two semesters based on their own preferences by choosing among the specialization modules available. The specialization modules are broad in scope and offer insight into all entrepreneurial fields:

• Organizational and Personnel Management of International Enterprises
• International marketing
• International Logistics
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
• International Controlling
• international financing
• International Economic Relations
• Operations Management
• Business Psychology

The specialization modules, without exception, all have an international focus and, thanks to their small group sizes, are taught in a very practice-oriented manner. Project work, workshops or excursions to internationally operating companies increasingly take place in these modules. Parallel to this, the Bachelor's thesis is written in the last semester.

In addition to the mandatory internship abroad, students can study one or two semesters at one of the many universities partner available to them in more than 40 different countries. In the case of good academic planning, the credits earned there are recognized in the IBA degree program, whereby any extension to the duration of studies is ruled out. Because of the academic planning depicted here, the IBA program lets you integrate two semesters abroad within the standard seven-semester enrollment period. IBA graduates thereby experience an ideal career preparation with hands-on specialized and language training.