Benefits of Taking a Business Degree Abroad

If you're still hesitating on whether to study business abroad, here are a few good things to consider. 

1. Useful international experience

• With its endless possibilities, a business degree will give you an excellent grounding on which to base your business career. Gaining that qualification abroad will have exposed you to the intricacies of global business and encounters with people from all over the world.
• Indeed, this contact with international colleagues and students is a key benefit to studying business abroad. Experiencing how people from different cultural backgrounds approach and solve problems is an important part of your learning. This melting pot of cultures also makes studying abroad so stimulating and rewarding. Where else would you get first-hand knowledge of working in an international team, before embarking on your career? The understanding you gain from such diversity will be invaluable in your working life and may help you clinch that vital first role.

2. Innovative teaching

• To stand out from the crowd, there are some innovative elements being introduced to many current business courses. For example, Oxford Brookes University Business School offers courses that are taught in two locations: the UK and France, having developed a strategic partnership with Burgundy School of Business. The opportunity to live and study in not one, but two overseas locations is valuable, and with many such courses you gain a dual-award degree.
• Qualifications like these not only set these courses apart from the rest, but also will help set you apart from the crowd. Other innovations and added extras to the business courses at good universities that you should look for include the chance to take part in consultancy projects and visits from industry experts. It will give you crucial hands-on learning.
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3. Impressive job search skills

• International experience from studying abroad, particularly in UK where business students are much sought after, gives you a powerful proposition as a candidate. To make the most of your job search, your university’s high skill in helping its students put together their CVs helps. They’ll advise you on everything from format, to content and cover letters. They also provide great job-search databases including international ones, and can help with interview skills that will really make you outshine the other candidates.

4. Genuine business skills

• When it comes to job searching, business degrees or MBAs are some of the most respected qualifications. The hands-on application of knowledge and numerous transferable skills that the average business student possesses is highly attractive to employers. They can see that skills such as creative problem-solving, managing yourself and others, strategic thinking and communication and presentation skills gives them a candidate who can ‘kill two birds with a stone’.

(Cover photo courtesy of IE University)