African Business Studies

Overview

What to expect?

• -Experience a week full of information and inspiration
• -Connect with our teachers & current students
• -Chat about all practicalities like admissions, student life

The Postgraduate is specifically fashioned to develop professional figures with uniquely African insights.

• In collaboration with African Embassies in the heart of Europe and top regional universities, the PABS program offers a first-in-class curriculum in African Business with set of courses for graduate students and dynamic future managers pursuing an effective business career across Africa, Europe and the world at large.
• This unique global perspective program with a regional focus was designed to face the growing demand for world-class professionals to manage the deepening relations between Africa and the rest of the world in the fields of business, entrepreneurship, and cross-cultural management.
• Through the PABS program, you will benefit from a combination of in-depth global and Africa-specific business knowledge, setting yourself apart in the competitive global marketplace.
• The experience will also come with lasting friendships and access to a wide-ranging international network filled with ambitious professionals who, like you, care about making a difference in the world. 

Aims of the African Business Studies programme from  Thomas More

• To learn how to do business with Africa’s five regions
• To understand global business with an African regional focus spanning across East,West, Centre, North and South of Africa
• To understand Africa’s business relations with major players like the EU, UK, US,China, Russia, Japan, India & Turkey
• To understand the different intercultural business practices in Africa
• To understand the importance of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement
• To analyse foreign trade (Import, Export) and foreign direct investment flows in theAfrican countries
• To understand the local culture in North, East, South, West and Centre Africa
• To understand a growing middle class of approximately 400 million people
• To understand a market of 1.2 billion people projected to reach 1.7 billion people by2030