International Management: The University of Manchester

Course description

This is a four year BSc degree programme in which you spend a full academic year studying management (in English) in a Management or Business school in Europe, the Far East or Australia.

In your first year, you are given a general grounding in the key disciplines underpinning management (including accounting and finance, economics, law, mathematics. psychology and sociology). In the subsequent years, employment studies, marketing and operations or technology management can also be studied. You are given the opportunity to specialise in international issues through courses designed to develop an appreciation of differences between institutions and cultures across nations.

In your year abroad, you take a full programme of courses taught in English in your host institution alongside home students. You then return to Manchester for your final year, in which a range of specialised international options across all of the key disciplines is available.

In your second year, you are informed of your exchange destination for your third year, chosen from leading management schools with excellent reputations.

Course aims

The International Management programmes aim to:

• enable students to acquire state of the art knowledge and understanding of the field of management.
• provide an educational experience which will facilitate and promote students' intellectual development and life-long learning skills.
• promote critical awareness of the merits and complexities of management, and to inculcate an appreciation of the association between theory and practice.
• appraise students of important new developments in the field of management.
• enable students to develop appropriate practical and transferable skills.
• provide a high quality management programme.

Career opportunities

As an International Management graduate you have many careers open to you in business and management in the public and private sectors. Our graduates become IT Managers, Chartered Accountants, Management Consultants, Human Resource Managers, Production Managers and so on; the list is a long one. Many go on to study for higher degrees in a wide range of areas.

Entry requirements

• English language: IELTS 6.5. Minimum 6 in any component. 577 in the TOEFL written test, 233 in the computerised TOEFL (including 5 in TWE), or 90 in the internet TOEFL with a minimum of 22 in each component.
• A level: Grades AAB.  General Studies is accepted if one of four A Levels passed in the same sitting.
• AS level: Two AS-levels accepted in place of one A-level providing at least one AS-level is studied at Year 13.
• Unit grade information: The University of Manchester welcomes the provision of unit grade information which, like all other available information, will inform the consideration of applications.  Unit grades will not normally form part of offer conditions, except for Mathematics programmes.
• GCSE: Grade B in English language and Mathematics.
• Key Skills qualification: The University warmly welcomes applications from students studying the Key Skills qualification. However, as the opportunities to take these modules are not open to all applicants, currently this is not an essential requirement of the University.
• International Baccalaureate: 35 points with 6, 6, 7 in the Higher Level subjects.