The global economy demands business skills and a global mindset.
At The Fletcher School at Tufts University you will receive a comprehensive international affairs education with rigorous business skills to go beyond and MBA and make a global impact for a better world.
Select from our family of international business degrees for every career stage. Highly flexible, you can match your degree to your interests, experience level, and schedule.
Find Your Match
Explore our global business degrees to start shaping global markets, strategy, and organizational impact—on your terms.
Master of International Business
Fletcher’s Master of International Business (MIB) combines rigorous MBA training with a focus on sustainability—environmental, social, financial—and global affairs, preparing leaders to address global challenges with innovative, long-term solutions.
- Modality: In Person
- Schedule: Full-Time, Part-Time
- Work Experience: All Career Stages
- Specialization: Select Two
Master of International Business: Quantitative Methods
The STEM-designated Master of International Business: Quantitative Methods (MIB: QM) offers a core curriculum similar to an MBA with the breadth of international affairs and a focus in data analytics and financial modeling—giving you deep quantitative and data skills to help organizations make informed decisions.
- Modality: In Person
- Schedule: Full-Time, Part-Time
- Work Experience: All Career Stages
- Specialization: Select Two
Executive Master of International Business Online
The Executive Master of International Business Online combines in-depth, graduate-level study in both business and international affairs, delivered through recorded and live online sessions in addition to two in-person immersion experiences.
- Modality: Online and In-Person Immersions
- Schedule: On Your Schedule
- Work Experience: 8 or More Years
- Specialization: Electives Available
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Why choose Fletcher for International Business?
The Fletcher School at Tufts University is one of America’s most reputable graduate schools uniquely offering interdisciplinary international affairs, business, and law degrees.
Experiential Learning
Conduct research, start entrepreneurial ventures, and gain internship and global experience, while consulting on critical issues with other future business leaders, diplomats, climate specialists, security professionals, and human rights lawyers.
Interdisciplinary Programs For Your Passions
Tailor your field of study to support your unique interests and career goals. In the job search, stand out for your interdisciplinary, deeper approach to business.
Get Career Support From a Global Network
Harness a powerful network of C-Suite, heads of state, leaders of global organizations and innovative business leaders – and get tailored support along the way from Fletcher’s expert career advisors.
Ranked Among the Best
The Master of International Business is ranked among the top 12 programs globally by QS and the Hinrich Foundation for international trade, Master’s and MBA 2026.
Flexible Program Offerings
A suite of in-person and online master's degrees for recent college graduates to experienced professionals, and a STEM-designated option for quantitative rigor.
Discover Boston
Study in Boston, a vibrant, innovative city and home to world-class universities, international organizations, and cutting-edge industries for unmatched pathways of professional growth.
Business for a Better World
Sampling of International Business courses:
- Strategic Management
- Sustainable Business
- Diplomacy, History, and Politics
- International Law and Organizations
- Impact Investing
- Data Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Managing NGOs
- International Finance and Banking for a Sustainable World
- Strategic Management and Consulting for Global Impact
Program highlights:
- A focus on innovative solutions and sustainable business
- Electives and fields of study (varies by program)
- Research AI, the digital economy, and more at the Institute for Business in the Global Context
- Scholarships and research assistantships for eligible students
- Career acceleration grants for MIB and MIB: QM students
- International network of classmates and alumni
- No GRE/GMAT required
Outstanding Career Outcomes
Meet your professors:
Bhaskar Chakravorti
Dean of Global Business
- Researches the impact of digital technologies and AI on lives and livelihoods and their impact on executive strategies and policies around the world.
- Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Mastercard Policy Center for the Digital Economy and creator of the widely-used Digital Evolution Index.
- Author of the Amazon best-selling book, “The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World” (Harvard Business Press) and “Defeating Disinformation” co-edited with Joel Trachtman, (Cambridge University Press).
Alnoor Ebrahim
Professor of Management
- Researches leadership and strategy for social change, managing NGOs and social enterprises, impact measurement, and accountability.
- Author of “Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World” (Stanford University Press) which has received multiple awards, including from the Financial Times and Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, and The Alliance for Nonprofit Management.
- Serves on advisory boards to the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) and the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA)
Jette Steen Knudsen
Professor of Policy and International Business
- Research centers on the interface between government regulation and business actions with a particular focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
- Studies the ability of governments in economically advanced industrialized nations to promote social change through regulation of social practices of home country multinationals in developing countries.
- Published works appear in highly-respected journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Policy and Politics, Political Studies and Regulation and Governance.
- Consults on the governance of sustainability for leading companies and international organizations.