The Fox School of Business at Temple University offers an intensive one-year program involving study in Paris or Mumbai, India, Philadelphia and then Shanghai and Tokyo.
Penn’s Wharton School of Business has a combined MBA/MA in International Studies that requires eight weeks of study abroad.
“Globalism” is the new buzz word in economics. — it’s increasingly clear that no business is immune from the effects of world events.
“It’s very difficult to find a business today that isn’t influenced on an international level,” says Frank Linnehan of Drexel’s LeBow College of Business.
“Even if you’re not doing business internationally, your competitors probably are,” points out Fariborz Ghadar, founding director of Penn State’s Center for Global Business Studies.
Anyone wanting to do business in the 21st century needs to understand the impact of the international finance and trade communities and how suppliers are affected by government regulations both inside and outside the United States.
Thus, all MBA programs require at least one or two courses on international business, and may offer options for studying abroad. In addition, numerous MBA programs specialize in international business.
You don’t have to wait till your MBA to study international business: The College of New Jersey offers an interdisciplinary program at the undergraduate level.
Offered through its School of Business, the B.S. requires the usual courses in economics, finance and accounting. It also requires three semesters of a foreign language and an internship with an international or multinational organization.
In addition, all students study abroad for one semester in Europe, Asia, Africa or South America. Doesn’t sound too tough, does it?
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