Program curriculum

The UVic Master of Global Business (MGB) program is a 12-16 month program, including a global internship. Your journey will take you to 3 countries/continents, depending on your path choice, and is a totally unique experience. 

There is no other program quite like it in Canada. You spend about three months in each country progressing through three modules:

1. Global Business Fundamentals
2. Global Business Opportunities
3. Global Business in Action 

Then you complete the program with a global internship.

Progress, learn and grow with your cohort

• Start in beautiful Victoria, B.C. with students from Canada, your path countries, and around the world.
• Progress through your path as a mutually-supportive cohort of classmates for nine months.
• Finish up with a global internship to help launch your international career. 

Module 1: Fundamentals

You begin with the Global Business Fundamentals module to first acquire a deep understanding of both doing business in a global environment and the unique characteristics of the North American business context. The module integrates international finance, strategy, marketing, global logistics and supply-chain management with an appreciation of North American legal, economic and social factors. You progress through a firm's stages of internationalization: first, exporter issues; then international firm issues; and lastly, concerns related to multinational organizations. Courses include:

Module 2: Opportunities

The Global Business Opportunities module provides you with an overview of how industries such as steel, food processing, ship building, fishery, petroleum and high tech deal with opportunity recognition and business development in a global setting as well as in an Asian business context. In addition, this module deals with the analyses and knowledge needed for successful global new business ventures as well as with Asia's entrepreneurial environment.

Module 3: Action 

The Global Business in Action module, with its orientation towards exploring The Asian or European business context, is intended to prepare the students to apply their knowledge and global perspective to solving business and industry issues and challenges. It introduces students to the various stages of consulting methods. Students also receive an overview of the corporate governance structures, legal and economic systems and the environmental sustainability issues in the Asian- or European-based organization with global reach, and will be given the opportunity to provide consulting advice to the company.

Global internship

The Global Business Experience module is your opportunity to put your learning into practice in an exciting trans-national internship.

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