International Business

International Business is an internationally accredited programme, ensuring a high-quality education that meets both the AACSB and EQUIS standards, which only one percent of universities reach worldwide. The programme is about business theories as well as organisations and their settings.

It is the intellectual understanding and their sensitivity to differences in perceptions and approaches that equips international business students to correctly analyse situations and to determine effective responses. You will be challenged to approach various business cases from different economic, cultural, legal and political perspectives. In your 3rd year, you will spend a semester abroad at one of our international partner universities.

International Business in Groningen is a challenging and fast-paced programme requiring a hands-on approach. You need to be hard-working and have a good command of English. Most importantly, you need to be deeply interested in the broad range of issues that make doing business different from country to country. Throughout the programme, we balance large lectures with small-group tutorials and mentoring to help you succeed in your studies.

The Dutch government intends to halve the statutory tuition fees for specific groups of first-year bachelor's students starting from the 2018/19 academic year.

International Business is a broad programme that forms a solid foundation to pursue a broad range of Master's degrees. You might choose to specialize in Marketing or Operations, for example. Or you could build on your Bachelor's with a Master's degree in International Business & Management, which will give you the credentials to work for a multinational firm, governmental institutions and international organisations. You can work in export, marketing or sales for example.

If you were to choose a two-year Research Master's you could move into academia, perhaps decide to go further and earn a PhD. Because all our programmes are EQUIS and AACSB accredited, a standard achieved by only one percent of universities worldwide, your degree will be highly valued on the labour market.
Plenty of multinationals will be interested in students with an academic degree in business. Your position within this kind of organisations can vary from export manager or international marketer to international sales manager, product manager or human resource manager. But numerous other career opportunities will lie ahead of you. This, of course, depends on the choices you make during and after studying. Many organisations also offer traineeships and junior positions which will introduce you to different types of activities.

FEB Career Services
To support you in developing your career and strengthen your employability skills, FEB Career Services empowers you to achieve lifelong success through various career services during your studies. In order to give you a better idea of your prospects after graduating from FEB, we have gathered some facts and figures from our alumni.

Our education is strongly rooted in business practice and society. Also right from the start of your degree programme attention is paid to academic research and pre-professional development. Since an analytical and critical mind and problem-solving capabilities are important qualities in any career our students aspire.

In collaboration with external partners we conduct research projects on e.g banking, local government, customer insights, leadership, energy, healthy ageing and lean operations.