Programme in numbers

12-18u

Contact time first-years Number of hours offered per week

88%

Transfer to second year Within this study programme

After having laid the groundwork in the first year, you can choose from a variety of elective courses and specialisations in your third year. Of course, we honour the name of this programme by encouraging you to explore international perspectives and take classes abroad. You will also benefit from a globally oriented classroom environment, where students and faculty bring diverse perspectives to discussions, group work and case studies.

Year one: laying the groundwork

In the International Bachelor in Economics and Business Economics, you will focus on global issues in economics and business. Your first year is split into four blocks. Each block consists of two courses and at least one support course or skills training.

You will cover a range of subjects from micro to macroeconomics, accounting to finance, data analysis, mathematics and statistics. Lectures are combined with small tutorial groups where you will work on your assignments and prepare for exams. These sessions, led by a student mentor, will help you to develop your skills in presenting, writing, and debating.

The year concludes with a milestone project in which you apply knowledge to real-world economic challenges and explore how you can contribute with your insights.

Years two and three: adding breadth and depth to knowledge, skills and experience

In your second year you will dive deeper into the subjects in the first year. You will also explore international economics, finance, marketing, welfare economics, as well as history and philosophy of economics, econometric methods, and organisational and public economics. It is not just the theory: all courses includes lectures as well as practical applied assignments in small groups. Additionally, you have the opportunity to choose an elective that aligns with your own interests.

The year culminates in an integrative milestone project, where you bring together knowledge and skills from different courses. Working on complex, real-world economic challenges, you take a deeper, more analytical approach and develop practical insights through collaboration and applied research.

In your third and final year the choice is yours. You get to choose your major and have a chance broaden your studies with electives and a minor. Or you can combine your major with an internship or take part in an exchange programme at one of our many partner universities abroad. The programme concludes with a thesis.

Learning Trajectories

You will follow learning trajectories that provide a structured pathway for developing knowledge, skills, and competencies, helping you understand how different courses contribute to your overall learning and development.

Teaching methods

We use various types of education such as the more traditional larger-scale lectures together with educational videos, E-learning and guest lectures, the small-scale tutorials (up to 30 students) and practical seminars in third year (up to 24 students). As a student, you work on group assignments, midterm exams, read and discuss academic and practitioner literature, and work on the Bachelor or internship thesis at the end of your studies.

International character

The diverse group of international students from all over the world offers a global learning experience. Class discussions, examples, and interactions, both in and between classes, ae much more intercultural and global compared to other programmes.

By participating in the International Bachelor in Economics and Business Economics, you will gain a unique perspective, avoiding the common issue of studying the world through an ethnocentric lens (like a European student looking at the outside world through their set of European-centred values and beliefs), a recurrent issue in socio-economic studies.