French/Business and Management

French combined with business and management offers an unusually practical pairing. Language study at degree level goes well beyond grammar and vocabulary: you develop the ability to engage with French culture, literature, history and ideas from the inside, building a genuine fluency in both the formal and informal registers that professional life demands. Business and management, meanwhile, gives you frameworks for understanding how organisations work, how markets function, and how decisions are made in complex, fast-moving environments.

Together they prepare you for a world where cross-border communication and commercial understanding are increasingly inseparable.

At the University of Glasgow you will follow a five-year full-time programme that combines deep engagement with French language and culture alongside the analytical and practical dimensions of business study. The French component allows you to explore a wide range of topics, including French comics, song and travel writing as well as medieval and contemporary French history, giving you breadth across literature, culture and historical understanding. The business strand develops competencies in areas such as strategy, marketing, finance and organisational behaviour.

A sandwich year provides the opportunity to work in a professional environment, consolidating the skills you have built in an applied context and strengthening your professional profile considerably. Work placement is integrated into the programme structure, and the typical tariff of 232 reflects the academic strength of the student cohort.

Graduates are well positioned for careers in international business, management consulting, finance, marketing, diplomacy, government and the voluntary sector. The ability to work across languages and cultures is consistently valued by employers operating in European or global markets. Many graduates pursue roles with multinational firms, public bodies with international remits, or cultural and media organisations.

Further study at postgraduate level in international business, European studies or management is also a natural progression, and the combination of linguistic and analytical skills is an asset in highly competitive graduate schemes.