Program Overview

Our BSc Business Management and French degree focuses on training you to be a world-class language expert with an understanding of how organisations of all sizes start, run and thrive.  

• You will have the opportunity to experience and benefit from being taught by experts in two different areas.
• Studying a Business and French degree at Surrey will develop your language and intercultural communication skills and your understanding of core business principles, giving you the linguistic competence and business confidence to excel in the professional and academic world.
• The languages element of the course is a degree truly for the digital age, in which you'll develop 'future-proof' skills that are highly valued by employers, such as problem-solving, communications and intercultural awareness.
• You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for work in industry after graduation.

Our French and Business degree will introduce you to core business principles and practice and give you the opportunity to continuously improve and practise your language skills in a variety of settings. If you don’t have an A-level or equivalent in French, you’ll have the opportunity to take French as a beginner as long as you can demonstrate language learning aptitude.  

Your first year of study will provide you with a strong base of knowledge in the essentials of business management and will introduce you to using French in a variety of academic and professional contexts. From the second year, you will be given the opportunity to select from a widening selection of modules, including marketing, HR, sociolinguistics and translation.  

The course includes a Professional Training placement abroad which will give you real insight into business practice in the relevant country, plus the opportunity to use and develop your language skills in a professional setting.

Our award-winning Professional Training placement scheme gives you the chance to spend a year in industry, either in the UK or abroad.

We have thousands of placement providers to choose from, most of which offer pay. So, become one of our many students who have had their lives and career choices transformed.

Business management and French placements

We believe that academic knowledge should be coupled with strong professional training experience, allowing you to graduate with a wider range of skills that will make you more employable.

The Professional Training placement programme is one of the reasons for our very high employment rates in Literature and Languages and Surrey Business School. Professional Training is an integral part of this course, be it in the form of a work placement or a period studying abroad.