International Business with Marketing (Top-up)
BA (Hons)

Course overview

This international business with marketing top-up course allows student with a Higher National Diploma or Foundation degree in business to study for one year and achieve an honours degree in business with a marketing focus.

Marketing is at the heart of any international organisation and plays a central role in influencing consumer behaviour. You explore the fundamental values that connect people, brands, and stakeholders, looking at a range of areas such as digital marketing, brand awareness and strategic marketing.

Join a community of learners from over 100 different countries to develop your management knowledge in a cross-cultural context. The emphasis is on you taking control of your own learning, advancing you as a business thinker and decision maker through workshop-based, interactive and developmental activities.

Top five reasons to study international business management top-up with marketing with us:

1. Real-world experience: our final-year students run Teesside Marketing Clinic offering tailored real-world consultancy services to small businesses, social enterprises, sole traders and start-ups in the Tees Valley area.
2. Industry input: we work with brands including Coca-Cola, Apple, Virgin Money, Volvo, and Microsoft, to give you experience of working with global organisations.
3. Entrepreneurial opportunities: our students have created 500 new business start-ups through Launchpad and Microbiz – a start-up community who provide support and advice for students looking to start a new business venture.
4. United Nations’ PRME initiative – we’re a proud signatory of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, which aims to globally raise the profile of sustainability and responsible leadership to equip current and future leaders with the skills to deliver positive change for business and society.
5. International community – benefit from Teesside University Business School’s great international community to develop your management knowledge in a cross-cultural context.

Course details

This one year course builds upon the knowledge you have already gained in your previous studies. You explore more advanced topics within the areas of business, management and marketing. There is a greater emphasis upon critical thinking and your ability to plan and manage your own learning as an individual and as part of a group. Upon completion of this year, you will be able to undertake work independently. You undertake a range of substantial, self-directed projects, as well as a research project.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

Successful completion of a foundation degree or higher national diploma (or equivalent) in a business-related subject. When applying through UCAS, make sure that you indicate your point of entry as Year 3.

For additional information please see our entry requirements

International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting Your Country

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You can gain considerable knowledge from work, volunteering and life. Under recognition of prior learning (RPL) you may be awarded credit for this which can be credited towards the course you want to study.
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Employability

Career opportunities

We provide an environment that allows you to build on and further develop the ‘extra’ practical employability characteristics that will make you more interesting to employers in the job market once you graduate.

Our staff use their extensive business connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lecture sessions, live projects and site visits. In addition we offer a series of workshops and events that ensure all students are equipped with both degree-level subject knowledge plus the practical skills that employers are looking for in new graduate recruits.

Our award-winning careers service works with regional and national employers to advertise graduate positions, in addition to providing post-graduation support for all Teesside University alumni.

Information for international applicants