By signing the Free Trade Agreements with countries in the area and around the world, Vietnam has become an attractive destination for foreign direct investment flows, especially from multinational corporations. Many groups have decided to build production and outsourcing zones, significant areas on their map of global business for production and contribution, in Vietnam. Those corporations include leading brand names such as Honda, Intel, Samsung, LG, Microsoft, and Canon. Reacting to the trend of our era, many Vietnamese enterprises have transformed to pursue the global value chain by participating more in international oversea business operations and investments. To have a foreign trademark or product recognized by Vietnamese consumers or vice versa, all stages including business strategy planning, product distributions, pricing strategies, logistic services, insurance policies, etc. must be run smoothly. Besides, all these stages need to be operated by professionals with depth-understanding of business linking with law, economic, cultural and geographical factors. Therefore, international business is a new field for anyone who wants to bring benefits to their company in the international business arena. The International Business Program is designed to offer students knowledge of the international business from basic to in-depth levels, particularly professional task performing, import-export strategy planning, marketing planning, international market analysis, foreign investment project and Vietnamese enterprises’ oversea project management, etc. Students graduating from the International Business Program at Ho Chi Minh City Open University have competitive advantages in the labor market regarding professional management with career certificates. Equipped with soft skills, they have practical experiences both in international business and especially in the import-export practice. After graduation, learners are potential candidates to become administrators of multinational corporations, with many opportunities to get promotion. Not only possess professional knowledge to develop personal business, learners can also study further to be experts or scholars.
The market economy has been developing in Vietnam and international trading is a prerequisite. The program provides an overview of international economy, trends of economic development and globalization as well as economic integration and foreign investment in Vietnam. The knowledge of the study program helps learners become experts in import-export practice or professional supply-chain managers.
More than 80% of the program content is delivered via the internet. Therefore, learners can get access to lessons, learning materials or exercises anywhere, anytime with a desktop, laptop, or a smartphone connected to the internet. Regarding the experiences, students can see the videos directly, or download in PowerPoint form, or offline scripts.
Lessons are concisely presented in theory together with practical illustrations relating to international business. Besides, learners come to class once in a semester on Saturday or Sunday to practice solving economic problems, exchange ideas with corporate specialists.
Teachers of the courses are in charge of each learner’s learning process. Also, students can exchange ideas with classmates or with their teachers via the school forum. Regarding technical problems, students can contact the school’s consultancy center.
The Online Bachelor's Degree in International Business belongs to the national degree system. After having gained this degree, learners can study master’s degree.
The average tuition is 480,000/credit and is paid each semester according to the number of courses registered. Students are provided with learning materials and access to free-of-charge learning resources.
The program content of the Online Bachelor in International Business includes all knowledge equivalent to that of the face-to-face undergraduate program of the same major. However, it is designed with practical orientation. Learners will complete their professional certificates to grab employment opportunities at the earliest time. General knowledge is accumulated at the same time or later, enabling students to broaden their understanding of the current context to develop great thinking. Covering 33 courses with 103 credits (except foreign languages and information technology), the program is normally delivered within 10 semesters. Although learners can slow down or accelerate their study pace, they have to accomplish these courses in the following order:
Those who wish to be admitted to the International Business Bachelor Program have to meet either of the two conditions as follows: + A high school degree or an equivalent following the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training is required. + A degree of Associate in International Economics or a Bachelor degree for those who want to have some courses exempted.
Since most of the contents are carried out via the Internet, learners should have many minimum facilities as follows: Desktop or laptop Although mobile devices can be used for most learning activities, learners have to use desktops or laptops to do exercises in some courses. Internet connection: Minimum 3Mpbs.
+ Windows XP/2000/2003; + Mac OS X; + Netware 6; + Solaris 10 (Sparc and x64); + Linux Distributions
+ Firefox 4; + Internet Explorer 10; + Safari 5; + Google Chrome 11; + Opera 9.