International Business
Our international business option is designed to give you an increased awareness of the economic, political, geographic and sociocultural factors that impact doing business across national boundaries.
Overview
When you think about where you want to be in life, are you thinking about the whole world? Then international business knowledge is a must for you. Our international business option is designed to give you an increased awareness of the economic, political, geographic and sociocultural factors that impact doing business across national boundaries.
This area of study prepares you for exciting international careers at multinational firms and can lead to exciting and rewarding opportunities abroad. It begins with this degree requirement: students must study overseas for one term via the Arthur Stonehill International Exchange Programs as part of their coursework.
Because those leaders who eventually hold high-level positions in international businesses often start their careers in entry-level business positions, all international business students also complete the requirements for a primary discipline within business.
For students with a first major other than Business Administration, earning a 2nd major is possible by adding the Business Administration major with the International Business Option to their current program of study.
Associated programs
The option in international business is available to students enrolled in the accounting, business administration, business information systems, finance, management, marketing or supply chain & logistics management majors.
Today's accountants are tech-savvy problem-solvers, insightful planners and strategic thinkers. Many of the “number-crunching” tasks formerly thought to be part of an accountant's world have long ago been replaced by sophisticated software. Instead, you can expect a satisfying and challenging professional career as an accountant, with lucrative and stable employment in a respected profession.
Our business administration degree provides you with broad business skills in accounting and quantitative methods, an understanding of the legal and social environment of business, and a background in management and organizational behavior, marketing, finance, and operations management.
You'll learn through hands-on experience and case study to be able to bridge real-world problems with technical solutions. The main goal is to train people who understand how to extract insight from data and translate the insight into competitive advantage.
You'll graduate not only with strong technical skills and proficiency in various data analytics tools, but also the ability to identify opportunities for data-driven solutions. You'll understand the financial and operational implications of data-driven solutions you've discovered.
As businesses continue to improve their competitive advantage, Information systems such as databases, web services and business applications are supplying strategic and operational opportunities for business leadership and decision making. You'll learn to harness technology to help organizations gain the right insights, improve operations, make the right predictions and achieve a competitive advantage in today's rapidly changing environment.
Finance is harnessing the power of money to make things happen. Effective financing enables life-saving research, ground-breaking engineering, and building of infrastructure on which communities and nations depend. On a more personal scale, financial planning and markets enable homeownership, entrepreneurial successes, and comfortable retirements.
Your degree will prepare you for management in both goods-producing and service enterprises for fluency in the management of systems, personnel and/or quality. The job sector is expanding faster than many other occupations, and it is a competitive job market. You’ll gain the strategic communication and leadership tools to run teams, divisions and entire companies.
The heart of marketing is creating value in a complex, advanced economy. Marketing consists of a sequence of activities: identifying customer needs, developing goods and services to satisfy those needs, communicating information about products to potential customers, and distributing the products to customers.
As companies seek increased efficiencies and competitive advantages across production and product life cycles, supply chain and logistics management is a growing career.
While studying supply chain and logistics management, you'll train to be operations and procurement managers for companies and government agencies within manufacturing and service sectors around the globe.
Ways to attend
We offer classes in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.
Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with five research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.
Attend classes in beautiful eastern at OSU-Cascades. Located in Bend, the growing city is known for sustainability, start-ups and innovation, yet it's surrounded by 2.5 million acres of national forests, snow-capped mountains and public lands.
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COB International Network Club
Whether you’re curious about the challenges and opportunities an international student faces, or you’ve learned first-hand about these exciting moments through your own travels, COB Inc is the place to make friends from all over the world, and help a new international student get comfortable on our campus.
COB Inc (College of Business International Network Club) is a student club created to support incoming international business and design students as they transition into OSU and the College of Business (whether on a short-term exchange or multi-year degree programs). COB Inc offers a variety of networking and social activities allowing international and domestic students a fun way to gain global understanding, expand intercultural competence and develop an international network.
