Career Opportunities
The MSc in International Business from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School can help you establish your career on a global basis.
81% of our graduates from this programme were employed after 6 months across a range of industry sectors. Source: Latest Graduate Outcomes Survey, published in September 2025.
Potential careers for our graduates include:
- International Business Analyst
- Account Manager
- Tender Manager
- Commercial Analyst
- Sales Development
- Small Business Account Manager
- Business Development Manager
Companies hiring our graduates include
UCD Smurfit Careers Network
The UCD Smurfit Careers Network team will work with you to define your career path and support you in developing the career-related skills, know-how, and confidence to pursue your post-MSc career goals. Our holistic programme is designed to support you at key points in your career development. Our programme is structured into three key stages, designed to support you in building and driving your own career.
A variety of workshops, events, one-to-one career appointments and access to a range of online tools and resources prepare you for future opportunities.
Carlo Liviero
MSc International Business 2023, Business Consultant EY
“Joining the International Business Master’s programme allowed me to build an extensive personal and professional international network of individuals from all kinds of backgrounds, cultures and nationalities. These relationships allowed me to enhance my cultural intelligence and my skill set by seeing how the same disciplines, topics, and tasks can be tackled differently as a result of one’s heritage and environment. It has been, and still is, an invaluable chapter in my personal development and growth.”
Filippo Carli
MSc International Business 2020, Account Executive Italy at Dynatrace
"The MSc International Business gave me the possibility to understand international firms’ best practices to gain competitive advantage. I particularly appreciated its holistic and practical approach. Not only I had chance to work in project groups with people from all around the world, but I could also get in contact with multinational companies headquartered in Dublin. This combination is the key if you are eager to kick off your international career. I was part of a great group of friends and today we are all working for big corporates. If I look back, my experience in the MSc International Business was more than positive."
Soufana Al Fathil
MSc International Business 2020, Account Executive at Salesforce
"My time at Smurfit and in the MSc International Business programme really gave me the foundations for an exciting career in Business Development. The modules that were taught across the three semesters broadened my horizons in relation to the latest updates in the world of business and gave me the tools to analyse and understand the changes around us. One of my favorite modules was Cross Cultural Management, where our professor really stressed the importance of the society we lived in and all the underlying behaviours that make up each of our personalities and how we interact in a global environment. This really helped me understand my global cohort better and has helped tremendously when I speak to my customers across the Emerging Market region."
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