This degree gives you a broad and practical overview of how businesses and managers operate in an international environment and provide you with an excellent foundation in the core disciplines of management studies. This course will develop your personal skills including critical reflection, research analysis, analytical reasoning, group working, report writing, and presentation skills. The core concepts and theories of contemporary management practice are taught throughout your studies. Alongside this you will specialise in two subject areas that focus upon key management disciplines. On this Business Studies (Study Abroad) degree you will have the opportunity to spend the second year of your course undertaking similar modules in one of our partner universities. This course opens the widest variety of career pathways in national and international firms, both private and public, as well as in small and medium companies around the world. Some graduates also go on to start-up businesses themselves. The course develops your conceptual understanding and provides practice-based insights. You will develop your personal competencies including communications and mathematical abilities. Such skills have helped recent graduates find work in a wide variety of roles in banking, retail, consultancy, sales and marketing and data analysis. Some former graduates are pursuing their studies with PCGE teacher training or professional qualifications. Many have stayed at Lancaster, for Masters degrees in subjects such as Management, Finance, Cyber Security and Human Resource and Knowledge Management.