Master’s in International Trade : Introduction

The Master’s in International Trade equips students with the operational management skills and expertise to become international business professionals ready to play an active role in companies trading worldwide.

• Give you an overall vision of how a company’s export department works.
• Teach you the ins and outs of customs and international taxes, payments, logistics, purchasing and transport.
• Set out the main characteristics of international contracting and show you how to manage issues with suppliers and customers with different cultural backgrounds.

• Teach you Business English.
• Enable you to design an internationalisation project for a company or product or write a thesis on the current state of international affairs and their influence on international business.

• Because ESCI-UPF offers a comprehensive vision of the internationalisation process.
• Because ESCI-UPF provides the necessary tools and strategies to build and consolidate a company’s presence overseas.

• Because ESCI-UPF has over 20 years’ experience teaching international business and bears the UPF hallmark of quality.
• Because ESCI-UPF lecturers are drawn from a wide range of in-service professionals eager to share their day-to-day experience of international business with students in class.

• Graduates and professionals looking to acquire a general, broad and practical education in international trade.
• People linked to a company’s international trade department in search of a global vision of the whole internationalisation process.

The Master’s in International Trade is a professional master’s degree, which means no internships are included as part of the course. Nevertheless, there is a free professional advisory service to help students polish their professional CV. Students are free to arrange an extracurricular internship themselves, and ESCI-UPF will draw up an agreement between the school and company free of charge.

In addition, all students who join the ESCI-UPF Alumni Association have free access to its employment office.