Global Studies with Business Management (Including Placement Year) - BA (Hons)
University of Essex
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The challenges facing today’s world are profoundly international. From the migrant crisis to global warming, contemporary challenges require graduates who bring a global perspective and broad skills to the workplace. Our course gives you the opportunity to study the unique combination of Global Studies and management.With our BA Global Studies with Business Management you’ll explore a range of subjects so that you develop the widest possible understanding of complex global issues whilst ...Read more

The challenges facing today’s world are profoundly international. From the migrant crisis to global warming, contemporary challenges require graduates who bring a global perspective and broad skills to the workplace. Our course gives you the opportunity to study the unique combination of Global Studies and management.With our BA Global Studies with Business Management you’ll explore a range of subjects so that you develop the widest possible understanding of complex global issues whilst obtaining a grounding in management.At Essex we train our students to be fearless and independent, to question everything and to draw on the broadest possible range of facts and ideas.Our graduates are well-placed to address the complex issues which confront the modern world. You can gain a diverse set of skills as well as a wide-ranging knowledge of the world’s most current and significant problems.Our course provides you with an excellent basis for going onto a career in international business, media, education, politics, the Civil Service, international organisations such as the UN and NATO or non-governmental organisations, and many other fields.

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Nor Hamyzah Azzahra
30 Oct 25

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£9,535 per year

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