(Attached to Decision No. 2658/QD-DHNT dated 16/08/2023 of the President of the Foreign Trade University)

1. Training objectives

1.1. General objectives

The program aims to provide high-quality human resources with in-depth expertise in international business who own a system of theoretical knowledge and business practices. After graduation, the students are able to occupy different working positions and jobs as professional staff, experts, consultants and business managers at domestic and international organizations and enterprises; also continuously study and develop professionalism at higher graduate education.

1.2. Specific objectives

PO1: Have strong political, ethical qualification and career orientation; good health and, mindset of social responsibility and community service; creative thinking, independent working skills in an international environment; high adaptability, self-study and long-life learning as well as continue to study training programs at a higher level;

PO2: Have basic knowledge of economics and business in order to build a business and management mindset; owning essential knowledge of international business for making international business strategies, modes of market entry, operations in the global market;

PO3: Have in-depth knowledge of international business, focusing on business environment, strategies, model and modes of market entry, global value chains, international business transactions, and business operations in the context of newly advanced techno-scientific development;

PO4: Have the ability to creatively combine skills, to detect and solve problems in the factual business life such as international business strategies configuration, market research, core competencies and international competitive advantages, business models; and sharpening a start-up mindset, creating jobs and value for themselves and society.

2. Program Learning Outcomes

2.1. About knowledge

PLO1: Apply foundational knowledge of political science, social science and humanity, law, methodology, scientific worldview, information technology and other general education knowledge to long-life study, research and work;

PLO2: Apply economics and business knowledge to analyse business issues;

PLO3: Apply international business knowledge to analyse business strategies and models, to solve business problems;

PLO4: Analyze trends and development prospects in the field of economics and business to innovate business models, to discover core competencies, to effectively exploit competitive advantages and to promote entrepreneurship in the global environment;

2.2. About skills

PLO5: Formulate research and data analyze skills to forecast opportunities and challenges of international business activities;

PLO6: Formulate innovation skills to develop business models and methods in international environment;

PLO7: Cultivate self-study and research, communication, presentation and career development planning skills;

PLO8: Formulate economic and business ideas in English skillfully (equivalent to level 4/6 of Vietnam’s Foreign Language Proficiency Framework issued under Circular No. 01/2014/TT-BGDĐT dated 24/01/2014 by the Ministry of Education and Training);

PLO9: Formulate masterfully informatics skills (according to Circular No. 03/2014/TT-BTTTT dated 11/03/2014 by the Ministry of Information and Communications), skills in using business data analytics software;

2.3. About autonomy and responsibility

PLO10: Cultivate an attitude of proactively planning, managing, evaluating, improving, and  communicating professional activities, through self-study, knowledge, and experience accumulation to improve professional competence and expertise and to overcome challenges;

PLO11: Proactively arrange individual work or teamwork in the globalization context of changeable work conditions;

PLO12: Form innovative thinking and self-directed ability to draw professional conclusions and to defend personal opinion.

3. Course Structure