Creative Business (ENG) full-time

Why study International Creative Business at Inholland

At Inholland, you study International Creative Business in a personal and international environment. You work on real projects with students and lecturers from different cultures and receive guidance. Step by step, you discover your talents and learn how to combine creativity and business insight in media concepts with global impact. 

What will you learn at International Creative Business?

  1. Create and learn to understand media concepts that stand out and matter.
  2. Combine creativity and business insight to develop value-driven concepts.
  3. Convert global and digital trends into media

 

 

Creative Business curriculum

Study programme

Programme outline

In your first year, you discover how media, storytelling and business insight come together in an international context. In your second year, you work more intensively on concepts for real clients and develop your knowledge, skills and professional style. In your third and fourth years, you shape your own path through electives, including studying abroad, a work placement, and your graduation project. This is how you discover the International Creative Business professional you want to become.

Learning formats

  • Projects
    You learn by working on real-world assignments and media challenges.
  • Collaboration
    You work in small international teams with students, experts and coaches.
  • Guidance 
    You are encouraged to take ownership of your learning and grow your profile.

 

Year 1

What you will do in year one

  1. Getting to know media, storytelling and business insight.
  2. Exploring how media work and the influence they have across cultures.
  3. Working on who you are as an International Creative Business professional.
  4. Learning how to use research in creative assignments.
  5. Collaborating in small international groups and learning from each other.

Modules in year 1

  • Media Maker
    You explore your own media use and learn how media shape perceptions across cultures.
  • Impact Maker
    You discover how to use media concepts to highlight social issues in an international context.
  • Brand Maker
    You learn how brands create meaningful stories and build connections with diverse audiences.
  • Business Maker
    You explore how entrepreneurship and strategy come together within the global creative economy.

Year 2

What you will do in year two 

  1. Deepening your understanding of media, marketing, management and entrepreneurship.
  2. Working on larger challenges and projects for real clients.
  3. Discovering what kind of International Creative Business professional you want to become.
  4. Learning how to support your ideas through research.
  5. Collaborating with students and professionals from the international creative field.

Modules

  • Creative Marketing Manager
  • Media Business Manager

Year 3 and 4

What will you do in your third and fourth years

Shape your future
In the third and fourth years of International Creative Business, you largely shape your own programme. You have the freedom to design your student journey and professional development. Whether you stay at Inholland, follow a minor at another university of applied sciences in the Netherlands, or spend a semester abroad, the choice is yours.

Electives
Through your minor, you can deepen or broaden your creative and strategic profile. You tackle real-world challenges, often in collaboration with companies and organisations in the creative industries. Examples of minors include Audiovisual Production & Film, International Music Management, Marketing & Social Impact, Event Experience or Entrepreneurship.

Work placement at an inspiring company
During your work placement, you learn how media concepts work in practice. This helps you discover which direction within the international creative industry suits you best.

Examples of work placements include:

  • Joining a media company such as Paramount, Talpa Studios or Walt Disney Group, helping to develop and produce video, audio or online formats.
  • Supporting a cultural production house or music venue and contributing ideas on how to reach diverse audiences
  • Developing formats or concepts at a marketing agency working on social or sustainable projects.
  • Helping convert brand stories into media concepts at a digital agency.

Choose your graduation project
You finish your studies with the Design-Based Research module, where you use design-oriented research to develop a concrete solution. This graduation project is your chance to show what you can do as an International Creative Business professional. You work on a real challenge for a client and develop a media concept or strategy that creates creative, social and economic value.

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Study guidance

In International Creative Business, you receive personal guidance in a small, international setting. Because you study in close-knit groups, lecturers and coaches get to know you well. You can always reach out with questions or for advice. This support helps you take ownership of your development and gradually discover your strengths as an international media professional.

Study abroad

Would you like to discover the world during your studies? In your third and fourth years, you have the option to follow a minor or do a work placement abroad. You experience new cultures, build an international network and gain insights that give your future career a head start. You decide for yourself whether you want to take this opportunity.