COURSE OVERVIEW

BBA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

The programme shall be a student centre approach aimed at creating practical based learning with support of scholarly models to allow participants to make their own discoveries. The design of the curriculum provides participants with perspective of international businesses by focusing on overview of economic, social, cultural and political/legal forces and factors influencing cross border businesses. It exposes students to a global view on businesses, investigating why and how companies go international. Participant are equipped with strategies to become international business expert and managers in a global market economy. The programme seeks to produce enhance the competencies of graduates to be middle managers, entrepreneurs with the ability to bring global perspective to business.

FEE STRUCTURE FOR THE YEAR 2021/2022

GHC 2,600 PER SEMESTERGHC 5,200 PER YEAR

Summary of Graduation Requirements

 

Programme RequirementsCredit Hours (Normative 4 year) Level 100

Advance Standing 1

Level 200

Advance Standing 2

Level 300

General Education (BGE)1612 
Professional Core (BCC)603224
Laweh Requirements (BLR)121212
Elective (BIC)404040
Project Work888
Maximum Credit Allowed 13610484
Major323232
MinorOptionalOptionalOptional
Minimum Credit Pass for graduation1249272

NB       Advance Standing 1 represents students who enter at level 200

Advance Standing 2 represents students who enter at level 300

 

  • Employment:

List the areas in which the students are likely to be employed

The target market is students already in employment, however, upon completion students could be employed in the following strategic areas;

  • Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
  • Local Government Institutions (Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies)
  • Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Manufacturing Enterprises
  • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • Media Houses
  • International Governmental Organizations
  • Financial Institutions
  • Educational Institutions
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Construction and Pharmaceutical Companies
  • Security Agencies
  • Consultations:

State the levels of consultations for the design of the programme including consultations with the appropriate professional and/or relevant supervisory body where applicable.

The programmes were developed in consultation with industrial practitioners, partnership institutions as well as the mentoring institutions. These programmes are already being run by the mentoring institutions and they have a lot of experience in this field, hence substantial part of the content was provided by the mentor institution.

 

The BBA Programme Structure is in a format of semester by semester as presented below.

 Course CodeCourse NameCredit
 Level 100 First Semester
1.       BLR 101Principles of Leadership Development4
2.       BLR103Digital Fluency4
3.       BLR 105Scholarly Writing4
4.       BGE 107Business Statistics4
 Level 100 Second Semester
5.       BGE 102Communication Skills4
6.       BGE 104Political and Social Development of West Africa4
7.       BGE 106Introduction to Psychology4
8.       BCC 108Principles of Management4
 Level 200 First Semester
9.       BCC 201Principles of Microeconomics4
10.   BCC 203Business Law4
11.   BCC 205Business Finance4
12.   BCC 207Quantitative Methods4
 Level 200 Second Semester
13.   BCC 202Principle of Macroeconomics4
14.   BCC 204Principles of Marketing4
15.   BCC 206Principles of Accounting4
16.   BCC 208Organisational Behaviour4
 Level 300 First Semester
17.   BCC 301Management Information System4
18.   BCC 303Managerial Economics4
19.   BCC 305Research Methods4
20.   BCC 307Company and Partnership Law4
 Level 300 Second Semester
21.   BCC 302Entrepreneurship and Business Planning4
22.   BIC 304Regional Economic Integration4
23.   BMC 306Quality Management4
24.   BIC 308French Language4
 Level 400 First Semester
25.   BIC  401Marketing Management4
26.   BIC 403Business Communication4
27.   BIC 405Negotiation in International Business4
28.   BIC 407Legal Aspect of International Trade4
 Level 400 Second Semester
29.   BCC 410 Project Work (Field Practice)8
30.   BMC 404E- Commence4
31.   BMC 406International Marketing4
    
 Total Credit hours          128

Programme Summary