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International Business Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
International Business via distance learning
This program provides the theoretical basis as well as a practical analysis of actual international business. It describes the global environment in which business operates, as well as the process of business preparation and market entry, strategy, and operations. It also covers topics such as the human and cultural environment encompassing business, international trade theory, government influence on trade, international business diplomacy, multinational accounting and tax strategy, and multinational ownership reflecting recent developments and current interests.
Academic Supervisor : Earle Taylor
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International Business Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - International Business.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Conflict Resolution - Diplomacy - Geopolitics & Geostrategy - International Law - International Relations - International Studies - International Trade - Maritime Port Management - Military Strategy - Peace Studies - Protocol & Etiquette - Translation & Interpretation .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - International Business Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: International Business via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - International Business Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: International Business via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Business Administration.
Master's Degree - International Business Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: International Business via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Business Administration. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - International Business Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: International Business via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Business Administration. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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International Business Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
International Business
This course studies the domestic and foreign perspectives that form the context of business in a diverse, global, and interdependent world. It covers topics on socio-cultural diversity; ethical issues; political, legal and regulatory issues affecting business; environmental issues; and the impact of demographic diversity on organizations.
Academic Supervisor: Earle Taylor
Business in Developing Nations
This course examines the international environment for transnational trade, investment, and operations in the less-developed countries; It surveys the economics of underdevelopment and analyzes foreign economic, cultural, political environments, and their impact on international business. It also considers the effect of foreign investment in the countries development process.
Academic Supervisor: Earle Taylor
Business in Less Developed Countries
This course provides an understanding of the economic, sociocultural, and political environment in the less developed countries. It deals with the problems of international trade and investment, north-south relations, technology transfer, foreign aid, and financial and capital flows.
Academic Supervisor: Earle Taylor
Business in Industrial Countries
This course deals with the factors and conditions affecting business operations and behavior in developed countries. It covers topics on international integration, business relations among nation states and supranational systems, direct investment, and multinational activities.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Trade Marks & Intellectual Rights
This course examines issues involving the international protection of intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on copyright and trade marks. It explores private international laws, including conflict of laws, jurisdiction, and arbitrage. It reviews public international law issues while focusing on international treaties and enforcement mechanisms.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
International Trade
This course surveys different trade policies used by both developed and developing countries. It examines issues important to trade policy such tariffs and non-tariff barriers, safeguards, voluntary restraints, dumping, and subsidies. It also covers trade strategies, agricultural trade, developing country rules, and regionalism.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
International Distribution
This course explains foreign freight forwarding, international transportation, warehousing, and the international channels of distributions, including retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen. It includes an analysis of the procedures and documentation related to international distribution.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
International Business Law
This course describes the practical application of international business law. It compares legal aspects of business, trade, financing, and contracts under different legal systems. It explains the international means of enforcement, adjudication, and arbitration. Multinational and multicultural in perspective, it examines international organizations and treaties that have an impact on international business.
Academic Supervisor: Philipose Daniel
Online Marketing
This course deals with the theory and practice of marketing on the Internet and focuses on the role of Internet in the marketing strategy. It helps to identify the web marketing goals; to understand web site promotion, referral programs, and search engine placement; to analyze e-commerce, online sales, and customer service methods; to plan a web store; and to think about future trends in e-commerce.
Academic Supervisor: Maria Smetanina
World Politics & Globalization
This course discusses the great power relations in the 20th century. Several critical issues of world equilibrium are analyzed, as well as notions of national power, the paths to power, balance of power, and collective security. It presents the instruments of international peace and order. It examines the following topics in international politics: massive destruction arms control, wars of intervention, the environment, global interest versus self-determination, and peace management.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
International Finance & Taxation
This course examines the international financial environment with particular emphasis on the foreign exchange markets and their interrelationships with international financial management and taxation. It also focuses on the principles involved in the taxation of inbound and outbound international transactions; jurisdictional issues; double taxation; taxation of income from inbound and outbound investment; international tax treaties; and fiscal incentives for investment.
Academic Supervisor: George Iatridis
E-Commerce
This course examines web commercial services. E-commerce is the name given to the business process of selling products, goods, and services over a Web browser. In its simplest form, it allows a company's product catalog to be hosted on a Web server that can be accessed by clients and potential customers to see what's been offered and make orders. Each E-commerce site is different and requires specific considerations.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
Multinational Management
This course deals with the managerial and strategic responses to the problems of international business organizations and operations. It explains the design and control of a multinational company structures and executives; and the adaptation of management systems and policies to different economic, sociocultural, and political environments.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
International Business Management
This course studies the issues, concepts, and activities associated with the management of international, multinational, global, and transnational organizations. Topics include: manufacturing, marketing, financial, and other functional strategies; political and economic issues as they affect decision making; issues related to organizational structures and strategic control; as well as comparative management styles and ethics.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
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International Business Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ACPI - Association of Career Professionals International
BMA - Business Management Association
CEIB - Consejo de Empresarios Iberoamericanos
EBEA - Economics & Business Education Association
EDAMBA - European Doctoral Programs Association in Management & Business Administration
FCIB - Association of Executives in Finance, Credit and International Business
FFA - Forum Francophone des Affaires
IABS - International Association For Business and Society
IAOM - International Association of Management
IBBA - International Business Brokers Association
IBF - International Business Federation
IBSA - International Business Structuring Association
ICC - International Chamber of Commerce
IFBPW - International Federation of Business and Professional Women
ISBEE - International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
ISOBL - International Society of Business Leaders
SBIF - Society of International Business Fellows
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Admission requirements - International Business
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - International Business Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - International Business Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
International Business Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
