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Why study International Trade BA at UB?

The International Trade degree is unique to the Department of Geography at UB. The degree offers students the opportunity to learn about trade from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Students use the tools of economic and business geography to understand the dynamics of multinational corporations, global financial markets, and technology and innovation change. As they progress through the degree, students learn to evaluate how these global-scale changes create opportunities and constraints for regional development in the United States and abroad. Students focus on the critical social, economic, and environmental challenges faced by workers, corporate decision-makers, government policy makers, and non-governmental organizations, which ultimately shape social outcomes and patterns of uneven development.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the International Trade degree, students will understand the basics of trade theory and global production network. Students will recognize and define the rapidly changing dynamics of the international business environment and its impact on corporate strategies and patterns of international trade and investment. Students will understand how these patterns shape, and are shaped by, historic and contemporary geographies of global inequality. Students will have well-developed skills in qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry, as employed in research, industry, and government agencies.

Career Outlook

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (US Department of Labor) lists geography as a stable employment sector, with excellent growth potential in some sub-disciplines. More than half of all geographers in the US are employed by the federal government.

Career Choices

• Investment and trade analyst
• International service provider
• Financial and banking analyst
• Market research analyst
• Researcher

Work settings include:

• Consulting companies
• Government agencies
• Local, city and/or state planning offices
• Multinational corporations
• Social services organizations
• Universities