In today’s globalized world, business constantly moves across borders. The international business curriculum exposes you to multiple dimensions of the practice of business around the world.

Like any concentration within the BS in Business, international business will help you prepare for a career as a business leader. Completing the international business concentration, in particular, will make it easier for you to accept professional challenges in organizations that stretch across borders.

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A bachelor’s degree will enable you to qualify for an entry-level position. Advanced education—an MBA or a JD, for instance, or a specialist MA or MS degree—will strengthen your ability to seek advanced positions in international firms.

We live in an increasingly interconnected world. And success in business means knowing how to interact across borders. This concentration offers you eye-opening exposure to a wider world and provides you with tools that will enable you to function effectively in that world.

Exposure to international areas in a range of functional areas within business as well as opportunities to develop international skills and perspectives by completing coursework in complementary areas outside business.

The best business education has two main standards: (1) Everything you learn should be useful in the world right now, not just twenty years ago or “someday in your future career.” (2) You should be given the opportunity to put what you learn to the test. Many universities offer excellent lessons in business theory. Others offer a more training-based education. Very few can offer you both.

La Sierra University is an outstanding place to study business because of the stimulating and supportive environment of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business and the international resources available within the Zapara School and across the university.

In our School of Business, we believe in the value of small class-sizes combined with highly engaged professors. We limit the maximum enrollment of each of our courses to thirty students or fewer, allowing our professors to work closely with each student, maximizing their potential for learning. In addition, each of our professors holds regular office hours, a time for students to meet with them for assistance, questions, advice, or even to learn of networking or career opportunities. There is nothing that delights our professors more than students interested in their own growth.

Yes. We strongly believe in the value of engagement outside of the classroom. All students are given opportunities to apply what they learn in the classroom in useful ways to our local and global community. Whether it be through community engagement in our Service-Learning courses, student-led projects in our Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Team, events and activities with our highly active business club and other student groups on campus, our students learn through experience.

We also work actively to engage students in job and internship opportunities. The fact that La Sierra University lies in the fastest growing county in the state and a city known for its affinity to business provides our students with excellent prospects for local work and internship opportunities. Our annual Meet the Firms Night event stands as one such opportunity for students to meet and network with potential employers.

Acquire the basic tools needed for success in all business areas: learn mathematics and written and oral analysis and communication. To prepare for a career in international business, also study languages other than your native language, cultures of the world, history, and government.