BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures
About this course
BA in Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures, a business management and modern languages degree centred on global perspectives in commercial operations and cultural studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Environmental Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme combines management theory with language acquisition across multiple European languages, incorporating a compulsory third year spent studying or working abroad. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Why Money Matters, Why Organisations Matter, and Business, Economics and Society, alongside chosen language and culture study. The second year progresses with core modules including Leadership, Influence and Collaboration, Marketing: Creating Customer Value, and Strategic Choices, alongside further language advancement. The third year is spent abroad on a work or study placement, allowing total linguistic and cultural immersion. The final year involves advanced language proficiency, a Project in Languages and Cultures, and optional modules such as Humans, AI and Business, Global Business and Geopolitics, and Work, Wellbeing and Performance.
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Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language; 32, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language, and B in the extended essay
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 82%: 83 offers from 101 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 17 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 82%
- Learning opportunities: 74%
- Assessment and feedback: 68%
- Academic support: 83%
- Organisation and management: 75%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 76%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 22 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 32%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Finance Professionals: 9%
- Elementary occupations: 6%
- Find their work meaningful: 70%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 50%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 60 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 12%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 42%
- East Midlands: 7%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 8%
- South East: 11%
- South West: 9%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 90%
- Baccalaureate: 10%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Why Money Matters
- Why Organisations Matter
- Business, Economics and Society
- French Advanced
- Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures
- French Beginner Intensive
- Understanding German and Dutch Histories and Cultures
- German Advanced
- German Beginner Intensive
- Dutch Beginner
- Russian Beginner Intensive
- Russian Advanced
- Russian and Czech Cultures in the Age of Empire and beyond
- Czech Beginner
- Spanish Advanced
- Understanding Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Histories and Cultures
- Spanish Beginner Intensive
- Catalan Beginner
- Portuguese Beginner
- Euro-Visions: Imagining and Questioning Europe
- Language at Work
- Resist! The Art of Protest in Berlin and Amsterdam
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
- Leadership, Influence and Collaboration
- Marketing: Creating Customer Value
- Strategic Choices
- French Higher Advanced
- French Intermediate Intensive
- German Intermediate Intensive
- German Higher Advanced
- Dutch Intermediate
- Russian Intermediate
- Russian Higher Advanced
- Czech Intermediate
- Spanish Intermediate Intensive
- Spanish Higher Advanced
- Catalan Intermediate
- Portuguese Intermediate
- Language and the Self
- Translation
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
- French Year Abroad
- Germanic Studies Year Abroad
- Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
- Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad
- Project in Languages and Cultures
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- Optional modules
- Social Approaches to Multilingualism
- Comparative Critique of Consumer Culture
- Tales of Cities. Mapping and Marketing the Urban as a Site of Encounter and Conflict
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Global Careers in Languages
- Music and Performance
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £24,500 after 3 years, £31,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,000 and £34,500.
What do graduates of BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
82% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 145 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
82% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 83 offers from 101 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Business Management and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.