International Management

During the first year, students are required to take the modules listed below. Students also have the opportunity to take one additional 15 credit module.

Additional credit modules are optional and do not count towards progression. Options offered may vary from year to year.

You are required to take the following modules:

• Social Science and Modern Business (10 credit)
• Microeconomics (10 credit)
• Organisational Behaviour (10 credit)
• Accounting (10 credit)
• Language (15 credit)
• Business Ethics and Sustainability (10 credit)
• Macroeconomics (10 credit)
• Financial Management (10 credit)
• Work in Contemporary Society (10 credit)
• Principles of Marketing (10 credit)
• States & Markets (15 credit)

Additional credit modules

There are no optional modules available in your first year, but you can choose to study one additional credit module. Additional credit modules do not count towards progression, but contribute to your overall degree score:

• Mathematics for Economists (15 Credits)
• Statistics for Economists (15 Credits)

You are required to take the following modules:

• Introduction to Research Methods (15 Credits)
• Intermediate Qualitative Methods (15 Credits) or Intermediate Quantitative Methods (15 Credits)
• Strategic Management (15 Credits)
• International Business (15 Credits)

You are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules from the Global Institutes, which may typically include:

• China & Development (15 credits)
• South Asian Political Economy (15 credits)
• Diversity & Change in the Political Economy of East Asia (15 credits)
• Transition, Emergence & Development in Africa (15 credits)
• Governance & Transformation in Russia, Eastern Europe & Eurasia (15 credits)
• The Political Economy of the Middle East (15 credits)

You are also required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules from King’s Business School, which may typically include:

• Technology and Innovation (15 Credits)
• Law and Management (15 Credits)
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship (15 Credits)
• Markets, Organisation and Society (15 Credits)
• Human Resource Management (15 Credits)
• Government & Business (15 Credits)
• Industrial Organisation (15 Credits)
• Career Development: Theory & Practice (15 Credits)
• The Psychology of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (15 Credits)
• Work and Organisational Psychology (15 Credits)
• Governance and Accountability (15 Credits)
• Consumer Behaviour (15 Credits)
• Political Economy of China (15 Credits)
• Intermediate Macroeconomics (15 Credits)
• Intermediate Microeconomics (15 Credits)
• Managing Diversity & Inclusion (15 Credits)
• Economics of Strategy (15 Credits)
• International Trade (15 Credits)
• A Foreign Language option offered by the Modern Language Centre, terms 1 & 2 (15 credits)

Additional credit modules

Students can take one additional credit module:

• Mathematics for Economists (15 Credits)
• Statistics for Economists (15 Credits)

Your third year of study will be spent abroad, either on a work placement/internship or studying at one of our partner institutions, which include:

• Hong Kong University
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Tongji University, China
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Universitat Mannheim
• Copenhagen Business School
• University of Vienna
• University of Toronto
• Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
• Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy
• George Washington University
• ESSEC Business School - France
• Hitotsubashi University, Japan
• Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Mcgill University, Canada
• University of Sydney
• University of New South Wales
• Universidad del Pacifico, Peru
• University of Melbourne
• Arizona State University
• Johns Hopkins University
• The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• University of Peking - Beijing
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

There are limited number of spaces at all destinations and there is no guarantee you will study at your first choice destination.

4th Year

In your final year of study, you will select eight 15 credit modules to study. The undergraduate project (dissertation) is worth 30 credits, and is optional. Please note, optional modules offered may vary each year.

There are no required modules in Year 4.

• Entrepreneurial Finance (15 Credits)
• Entrepreneurial Family Firms (15 Credits)
• Applied Economics (15 credits)
• Investment Management (15 credits)
• Marketing Strategy & Planning (15 credits)
• Managerial Economics (15 credits)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (15 credits)
• Organisational Change (15 credits)
• Labour Economics (15 credits)
• International Human Resource Management (15 credits)
• International Financial Systems (15 credits)
• Communications in Organisations (15 credits)
• Financial Statement Analysis (15 credits)
• International Marketing (15 credits)
• Employment Law (15 credits)
• Leadership: Theory & Practice (15 credits)
• Marketing Communications (15 credits)
• Social Psychology of Financial Markets (15 credits)
• Money & Banking (15 credits)
• Project (30 credits)
• London Living (Classroom Project) (15 Credits)
• A Foreign Language option offered by the Modern Language Centre, terms 1 & 2 (15 credits)