International Trade and Investment

Overview

The strengths of our International Trade and Investment programme

• Unique combination of business, law and investment courses.
• Exchange opportunities to Washington or Shangai
• A mixture of academic and practitioner led classes, designed to provide theoretical and practical understanding of the various aspects of international trade and investment.
• Internship services: students are assisted in obtaining internships.

• The BDA can provide references and career advice.

After graduation

There are various job opportunities open to graduates from this programme, they include export manager, international purchasing manager, investment manager, international sales representative, country manager and institutional relations manager.

Graduates of this International Trade and Investment programme from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) may also move into international business development as well as the banking sector, for example in international trade finance and international investment finance departments, as well as corporate relations. Specialists in international trade and investment can find jobs in international organisations, governmental departments and diplomacy (e.g. Trade Commissioner).

The unique combination of business, law and investment courses provide graduates with a rare breadth of expertise. Alumni have gone on to work in a range of roles at a variety of places including multinationals, SMEs, Association Management companies, start ups and academia.