A program to understand the world and learn to build relationships that mitigate risks and identify new business partnerships and opportunities.
You will focus on acquiring theoretical and practical skills and competencies to understand the operation of international relations and promote business abroad, using diplomatic channels and processes, both in the public and private sectors.
This program provides the skills needed to include diplomacy as a key management tool. You will play a key role in understanding the new role of companies, closing the gap between commercial activities and the management of socio-political issues.
Get the skills needed to include diplomacy as a key management tool and play a key role in operating business in a complex VUCA world.
Build your career in business internationalization in companies and public institutions.
Benefit from an innovative learning system focused on practical experience and case analysis.
Train your future by participating in work placements supervised by experts with extensive experience.
Bilbao Campus
International Relations and Business Diplomacy
2 semesters - 60 ECTS
English
25
On campus
Admission process open
4 afternoons/week
The admission process for the 2025-26 academic year is now open
Our aim is to provide future professionals with the skills they need
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Designed by an international council of public and private sectors employers, scholars and high-level experts.
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100% guaranteed international work placement at leading institutions and companies.
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Over 80% of our students employed in the first 6 months after graduation
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Benefit from an innovative learning focused on practical experience and case analysis
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A country committed to a culture of internationalization, open and ambitious in its aim to consolidate itself as a benchmark on the international stage.
More outside than inside...corporate diplomacy is the most important function in internationalization and global positioning processes
In a global environment, the management of stakeholders, impacts and risks are key for companies
University graduates who plan to develop their career in business internationalization through innovative training by international scholars and experts in a multicultural academic environment.
Professionals, currently working at companies and public institutions in the field of international business promotion, who need to enhance their professional profile with advanced training in new strategies and tools that take into account the latest lessons learned, advances and experiences.
Entirely English taught program receiving top-level worldwide professionals, the master’s degree has been an enriching experience that provided me with the competences to understand global relations.
The Master's programme transformed my professional outlook, equipping me with analytical and practical skills to understand global relations, internationalisation, and geopolitical challenges, which I successfully apply in my business on a daily basis.
The Master has made me grow professionally within the international business development area, doing my internship in an internationalizing fashion industry company.
This master’s degree has offered me the possibility of deepening the internationalization of public-private relations, and how this fits within a framework shaped by the current geopolitical, competitive and sustainability keys
In an increasingly competitive, complex and unstable global environment, this master’s program has offered me optimal training for its interpretation and conceptualization, providing it with key analytical-operational skills for my professional future i
In a gradually evolving world, this master’s degree taught me not only how to conceptualise geopolitical issues but also how to critically analyse them, giving me the necessary tools for my future in business diplomacy
The master’s degree cultivates competences which allow for a deeper understanding of business in both the public and private sector while also providing the students with one-on-one contact with experts in the field coming from a wide array of backgroun
Sergio Caballero
Room 337 - Main Building
email: sergio.caballero@deusto.es
Cristina Elzo
Postgraduate study - 3º floor Glass Building
Tel.: 944 139 353
email.cristina.elzo@deusto.es
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