Global Business

The global business concentration offers a set of international business courses and a wide range of opportunities for international experience through internships, study-abroad programs, and partnerships with international institutions. Thus, graduates completing this concentration not only understand the concepts and theories of global business, but also have some experience with the cultures and business environment of other countries.

The Pamplin College offers a broad range of international experiences. They include experiential programs with extensive travel during the summer, in-residence programs using Pamplin and foreign faculty members, exchange programs, and courses in which student teams serve as consultants to foreign businesses or to domestic companies with plans for export. Some Pamplin MBAs also participate in the dual-degree program with Thunderbird University.

The job market for MBAs completing this concentration is excellent. More than 60 companies and government organizations regularly interview Pamplin MBAs concentrating in this field. Typical job titles include systems analyst, network administrator, project analyst, database developer, applications developer, and information management consultant. Consulting firms are the major employers of MBAs graduating with this concentration. The firms include Andersen Consulting, American Management Systems, Deloitte Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, KPMG, and Ernst and Young.