International Business

The core competence studies, or core competence modules as we call those, form the foundation of your degree and professional skills. These studies are designed to support your development as a professional in your field and provide a solid groundwork for future elective studies.

You learn basic business competences and essential topics such as marketing, economics, legal environment, and research methods. Also, you discover the concepts of sustainability and managerial processes in a global context.

Work placement is part of the core competence studies.

Part of your degree consists of profiling competence modules, enabling you to build expertise in your chosen direction according to your own goals. These studies offer opportunities to broaden, deepen, and enhance professional skills and personal development.

In International Business, you will shape the direction of your future career by choosing studies based on your interests. You can follow your own path by choosing at least two of the various modules that our degree programme has on offer. Moreover, it is possible to modify your degree based on your own interests, and take 15 cr optional studies from some of HAMK’s other degree programmes. Also, you have the opportunity to take courses from other higher education institutions in Finland and from our partner universities abroad.

The purpose of the work placement is that you to gain work experience and to earn how to apply knowledge and skills in certain field. The aim is to promote your career development and to improve job prospects. 30 credits work placement in practice means 5 months full-time work. One week full time work accounts for 1,5 credits. You will complete the work placement included in your degree during the course of your studies, as supervised work placement in Finland, abroad or in your own companies. You can also do the work placement during the summer.

Your thesis is a development or research project you work on towards the end of your studies. It helps you get better at what you’ve learned and shows how you can use that knowledge. It’s worth 15 credits, and you get to pick a topic that interests you and fits your career plans. It aims at solving problems emerging from the workplace. We encourage you to choose a real problem to solve from a company, to put your skills into practice and create new solutions for your industry.