Your program

• Marketing and Business Development

• Introduction to International Business

• Dutch/Spanish/French/German

• Financial Analysis

• Business Communication

• Data Driven Decision Making

• Change Management

• Sustainability

• Business Project

The academic year runs from September to August. In that time you have 42 weeks of education. The rest of the time you have holidays.

Are you missing home? Are your classes too challenging? Want advice about your internship? Your study coach is there to help you with such issues. They help you find effective ways to study. Support you in making choices about your future career. And guide you in your personal development.

HAN uses the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). This system is part of the bachelor-master structure. ECTS credits are a measure of the workload of a degree program.  

In your 1st year, you’ll meet with your study coach a few times to talk about how you’re doing—both personally and in your studies. At the end of the year, you’ll receive Personal Study Advice. This advice helps you decide whether this program is the right fit for you. When giving this advice, we don’t only look at the credits you’ve earned. We also consider your motivation, engagement, effort, attitude, attendance, and any personal circumstances. Are you in the right place? Does this program suit you?  

The Personal Study Advice is not binding. So, whatever the advice is, you decide whether you want to continue with the program. 

Become a finance professional and play a key role in the financial success of an organization. You’ll help ensure that decisions are based on reliable information and sound analysis, while balancing the interests of different stakeholders.

In this specialization, you’ll learn how financial decisions affect businesses and how finance connects with human, cultural, and other non-financial factors. You will develop knowledge and skills in the following themes:

• International & corporate finance
• Accounting
• Risk management
• External reporting and taxes
• Business communication
• Performance management

Learn how to support and advise organizations as they respond to change in a rapidly evolving international business environment. You’ll help businesses adapt to challenges such as innovation, sustainability, and globalization, and support them in implementing effective change.

In this specialization, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills needed to manage organizational change and communicate professionally in German, French, or Spanish. You will work with the following themes:

• Sustainability
• Change management
• Operations management
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Project management
• New types of business

Learn how to help companies grow in international markets. You’ll explore how organizations can attract customers, identify new business opportunities, and strengthen their international sales activities.

In this specialization, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills needed to understand customer needs, evaluate market opportunities, and support international business growth. You’ll also learn to communicate professionally in German, French, or Spanish. You will work with the following themes:

• Entering new markets abroad
• International account management
• Improving international sales
• International marketing
• E-commerce
• E-business

Learn how to manage the flow of products and services from sourcing and production to delivery. You’ll help organizations balance customer needs, operational possibilities, and financial considerations to ensure products and services are available at the right place and the right time.

In this specialization, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills needed to coordinate supply chains and improve business processes across the entire journey from supplier to customer. You will work with the following themes:

• Customer service
• Marketing perspectives
• Sourcing
• Production
• Distribution
• Finance

Want to learn more about a  certain aspect of business? Or about another culture? Like to improve your language skills? Your minor lets you do all this. It’s a fairly flexible semester. You give your preferences for the country and the university you'd like to go to. Then there's a selection procedure and you find out where you'll be studying. Your subjects? You choose subjects that interest you and fit your specialization.

How do you perform in a professional situation? How do you deal with cultural differences? And which areas do you still need to develop? Your internship is the ideal place to reflect on these questions. You could be interning at any number of international companies. Deloitte Consulting, KLM or L’Oréal, for example. You’ll work in the marketing, sales, finance or logistics department, depending on your chosen specialization.

As an international business professional, you need solid research skills. For example, when you want to expand your business into new markets. Or create a strategic plan. Throughout this degree, you get hands-on experience with research. During the team projects, for example. Also, when you do your graduation project. This way you can validate the choices you make and give sound advice. 

First you follow a number of modules to prepare yourself for the international business arena. Then you get stuck into an individual research project. The topic? You can choose a topic that fits in with your personal career ambitions. In this project you assume the role of consultant who is developing a selling tool. A tool based on a short-cycle research methodology.

In your final semester you intern at a company in an international business context. Develop and show your professional competence by performing complex tasks and activities in the fields of marketing & sales, finance, organization & change, communication or supply chain management. You’ll work with a large degree of autonomy. But you have to prove you’re able to integrate various competencies at the level of a starting professional. How do you show this? Through a portfolio and a criterium-based interview.

Your reward after 4 years of dedicated study: a Bachelor of Business Administration. Great work! The program you've completed is accredited by 3 accreditation organizations:

• Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO)
• Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA)
• European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) 

So you now have an internationally recognized degree. Ready to start your international career? Or continue your studies in a master program?