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The BIS Bachelor's programme offers you a gateway to JSBE’s well-known and popular master’s programmes (M.Sc.): Master’s degree programmes in International Business and Entrepreneurship (IBE), Corporate Environmental management (CEM), Digital Marketing and Corporate Communication (DMCC), and Responsible Management and Business of Sport (RESPO). This option – after the bachelor level graduation – enables you even more career opportunities and new academic research skills and pathway to study at the international M.Sc. programmes at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ School of Business and Economics. M.Sc. Programmes at JYU is a great pathway for doctoral studies and post-doc career.     

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Student profile contains potential students with interest towards business and innovating, and on making career in the companies. In addition to that student profile covers applicants with good argumentation and language skills. Priority will be given to those applicants who are eligible based on the selection criteria of the BIS programme. 

By graduating at the bachelor's degree level, you can work at multiple junior level positions in firms and public organizations. Typical entry level jobs relate to consulting, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, business process management, customer interface, and sales.    

Co-operation is done with academic and industry experts of the field. Advisory group of the BIS supports interaction between industry and academia. Its members are from companies and organizations related to the BIS programme core topics of business, sustainability, and strategy. Many of our faculty participate firm management in the roles of board member or specialist, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and teachers in executive education programmes. Collectively, they offer experience from multinational and Finnish firms such as Kesko, Metsä Group, and Valtra. Others bring executive-level insights from entrepreneurial and venture capital initiatives.

The BIS programme offers opportunities for student exchange in some of our collaborative universities around the world. Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ and JYU School of Business and Economics offers extensive number of good quality universities for exchange programme. Internationalization takes place also by the BIS course studies which are taught in English and by the thesis written in English. Students of the BIS come around the world, enabling international team working and studying together. Team working in English and other activities increase not just language skills but also relevant business skills. Many of our teaching staff members are international. Most of the staff members have multiple experiences on teaching and research exchange in other well-known business schools such as University of Lausanne, University of St. Gallen, Stockholm University, Copenhagen Business School, and University of Karlstad among others.   

Qualitification of the degree is related to new knowledge creation and business skills. By attending the Bachelor of Innovation and Sustainable Business (BIS) programme you learn science-based thinking and logic in business and sustainability. Our courses support business skills to create new knowledge.  You also get the benefits of a small programme: Our courses take place in smaller groups where you get to interact directly with teachers and other students. You get personal counseling and personal study plan individually tailored for your career purposes.In our programme in Business Innovation and Sustainability, you learn about the management of business innovations, sustainable management, new business creation, decision-making, and sustainability transition. This programme also offers high-quality elective studies in digital marketing, responsible management, and entrepreneurship, among others. In addition, we provide multiple opportunities for student exchange and trainee periods in companies.  

Thesis is done at the end of the bachelor level studies. It is done in synergy with the capstone course and other relevant courses, and it can be done as a literature-based study or as an empirical study, typically for a company. 

Research focus is on topics related to strategy, sustainable business, innovation and entrepreneurship. Research is conducted internationally in high quality journals. Professors and other staff members of the BIS programme have published in leading journals of the field such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Organization Studies and other FT50 ranked journals.