Department of International Business

The process of globalization has enabled India to emerge as economic super power thus attracting investments from giant global business players of multi-nations. At the same time, a sizable number of Indian MNCs are also gearing up their international business operations across the world. It is in this emerging and transforming scenario, Pondicherry University has established, during the academic year 2006-07, the Department of International Business (DIB) under the School of Management to offer a specialized two-year fulltime post-graduate degree in MBA-International Business for the students to have a thorough understanding of those aspects of business which are trans-boundary in nature.

The DIB has designed the MBA-International Business Programme with a special focus on imparting training and molding aspirants to acquire necessary core competencies, which are specifically required to manage global business operations. Besides giving conventional management education inputs, a highly competent set of faculty has designed and developed a course structure that will provide core competency skills in chosen areas of international business ranging from geo-political issues, managing in emerging economics, international trade and logistics, global banking, financial services and insurance management, IT and ITES management, international tourism, hospitality and customer relationship management, retail management, export and import system, cross-cultural management, foreign language and environmental issues The course curriculum is so organized that the students are groomed to take up the challenges of new millennium, which are truly international and competitive in nature and not restricted by geographical or political boundaries.