International Business

This business concentration provides students with the business management skills needed to solve problems in international markets.

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What is International Business?

An international business concentration prepares you to conduct business across borders in a variety of situations. Often combining some training in language and other business areas, graduates will be able to manage business relationships that are central to the global business environment.

International Business Degree(s)

Business Administration—International Business Concentration, BA

Major with minimum requirements
Direct Admission

The International Business Concentration provides students with the skills global companies are seeking. Often combining training in language and other business areas, students learn to manage business relationships across borders in a variety of capacities.

Contact

Cristina Nelson, Major Information: Academic Department Manager
cristina.nelson@wwu.edu | 360-650-2902

Professor Tom Roehl, Major Information: International Business
tom.roehl@wwu.edu | 360-650-4809

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Business Administration—International Business Concentration, BA

  • International Business at Western

Even as the idea of globalization is under challenge, the necessary skills to manage both collaborative and adversarial relationships in international business remain essential. Rather than a simple global story where products are similar and low-cost production dominates, we live in a world of substantially increased complexity. Thus, the skills of a person trained to handle that complexity of international business will continue to be valuable, even as they are used in different situations and for different organizational goals.

  • What can you do with International Business?

  • Management of international relationships between firms
  • Logistics
  • Supply chain management
  • Combination with a specialty graduate degree (law school, public administration, analytics)
  • Work for an internationally active firm or organization
     

Student Experiences

International Business majors will:
 

  • Learn how to put Western's liberal arts education to good use in a business context
  • Acquire the same functional skills as any business graduate
  • Understand how to integrate those functional skills with international business conditions to solve problems in international markets
  • Will be exposed to the way functional areas like economics, marketing, or even political science view the international stage
     

What can I experience outside of IBUS classes?
 

  • An international experience (language, internship, or study abroad)
  • Optional international market research classes with real, local Northwest companies
  • The possible combination of my IBUS training with another major or minor
     

International Business Club (IBN)

Students in the IBN Club will hope opportunities to interact with Western alums, international experts, and fellow International Business students.

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