Curriculum

With an international business major, students gain an understanding of the complex forces shaping business today.

We offer you an interdisciplinary approach drawing on all the functional areas of business. Courses include:

• Environment of International Business
• International Accounting
• International Finance
• International Economics
• International Management
• International Marketing

Courses that focus on business in one area of the world include:

• European Business
• Business in China
• East Asian Trade and Investment
• Latin American Business

There is an opportunity to specialize in a region of interest through our Asian Studies or Latin American Studies concentration. There is also a foreign language requirement and, for most students, a built-in minor. You can chose from:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Russian

A study abroad experience is strongly encouraged. More than 85% of international business graduates study in a foreign country. IB majors have studied in 25 different countries on all six continents in the last decade. Many students have chosen: Argentina, China, France, Italy, Japan and Spain, among others.

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Research

One of the many great reasons to choose The University of Scranton is the opportunity to engage in research, often funded by the President’s Fellowships for Summer Research. Mark Grambo ’12 and Jan Wessel ’14 are two international business majors who were awarded these fellowships. Grambo studied ecotourism, ethics and “greenwashing” and presented his research at the International Academy of Business and Public Affairs Disciplines Conference in Orlando, Florida. Meanwhile, Wessel studied sustainability in China’s automobile industry, the world’s largest auto market. You can read more about their research here.

Scranton has a remarkable number of students who go on to become Fulbright Scholars. Fulbright is the U.S. government’s most prestigious scholarship for spending a year studying or teaching overseas following graduation. In fact, The University of Scranton has been recognized as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright winners. International business majors have won Fulbrights to Argentina, Mauritius, UAE, Estonia and Hungary. Read more here.

Did you know? In the last eight years, three international business majors have won Fulbright scholarships.

For example, Jan Wessel ’13 received a Fulbright scholarship to Budapest, Hungary where he researched the role of multinational corporations and foreign investment in that country. He also received a second fellowship to extend his stay an additional six months. Wessel was president of the International Business Club and a member of both the University Honors Program and Business Leadership Honors Program.

One of the fundamental tenets of a Jesuit education is service to others. We believe that business has an obligation not only to shareholders, employees, and customers, but also to the community at large.

While there is no service-learning requirement in this major, we encourage students to volunteer in meaningful ways. Our International Business Club is very active in service work. 

Stephanie Boccuzzi ’14 was president of the International Business Club. She double majored in international business and Spanish with a concentration in Latin American studies and studied abroad in Argentina. She was in the Business Leadership Honors Program. In addition to being a leader on the tennis team and serving as a secretary for Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society for Jesuit colleges and universities, Stephanie participated in community service through our Leahy Clinic for the Uninsured where she translated for Hispanic immigrants and then spent a year volunteering at the Working Boys Center in Quito, Ecuador.

Students join the Peace Corps working in Guatemala, Paraguay, Cameroon, and Bulgaria or give back through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.