International Business & Artificial Intelligence [with Foundation Year]

This unique course combines international business expertise with cutting-edge AI skills, giving you the ability to thrive in a world driven by digital innovation.

You’ll learn how organisations operate across borders while exploring how AI transforms strategy, marketing, finance and supply chains. Through hands-on experience with AI tools, data analytics, and live business projects, you’ll develop the skills to solve complex global challenges and make data-driven decisions that deliver impact.

From day one, you’ll work with industry partners, hear from experts using AI in business, and explore key issues like sustainability, digital transformation, and responsible AI governance. By graduation, you’ll have a powerful blend of international business knowledge and practical AI expertise, an edge that sets you apart in today’s competitive job market.

Whether your future lies in launching a tech-enabled enterprise, joining a multinational, or shaping the way AI changes our world, this degree gives you the tools to succeed.

Why ARU?


• Benefit from small class cohorts where we’ll know and support you.



• Build confidence and influencing skills through presenting your work.



• Develop highly valued transferrable skills to enable career pivots.



• Gain real-world experience through industry-led Live Brief projects.



• Learn from sector experienced, expert lecturers.

At ARU, you’ll be supported from day one with wellbeing services, money advice and careers guidance to help you through university and beyond.

Their courses are built around the skills and experience employers value. ARU are proud to be in the top 20% of UK universities for teaching quality (TEF 2023), and ranked #1 in the East of England, and #8 in the UK, for UG graduates in senior roles 15 months after gradudation (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2025). You'll have access to fantastic facilities thanks to £95m of investment - think SuperLabs, TV studios, law courts, mock hospital wards, gaming studios and more.

Wherever you're heading, ARU will help you get there.