BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish)
About this course
Bachelor of Science in Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish), an undergraduate degree spanning Business Management and French and Francophone Studies and German and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Human Behaviour, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students spend the third year abroad on a workplace, teaching, or university placement. The first year introduces foundational themes through compulsory modules such as Business in Society, Digital Technologies in Business, Introduction to Accounting and Finance, and Introduction to Management, alongside specific language and cultural studies. The second year examines organisational design and operational strategy via modules including Critical Perspectives on Organisation and Management, Human Resource Management, and Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad). The third year consists of the Residence Abroad Portfolio. The final year supports re-entry and advanced study through Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad Re-entry, alongside optional modules covering areas such as Strategic Management, International Business, and Project Management, plus independent research options like the Applied Research Project or the Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB including one named language, and Grade 6 (Grade B) in GCSE Mathematics IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level, including 5 at Higher Level in one named language, and Grade 6 (Grade B) in GCSE Mathematics
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What students say
Based on about 26 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 74%
- Learning resources: 93%
- Student voice: 66%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 13 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 33%
- Finance Professionals: 12%
- Administrative occupations: 9%
- Elementary occupations: 7%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 6%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 55%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 155 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 2%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 1%
- West Midlands: 2%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 27%
- South East: 38%
- South West: 13%
- Wales: 5%
- Scotland: 1%
- Northern Ireland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students
- Business in Society
- Digital Technologies in Business
- Introduction to Accounting and Finance
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- Introduction to German Studies
- Introduction to Management
- Introduction to Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Understanding History and Society
- Critical Perspectives on Organisation and Management
- Human Resource Management
- Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad)
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
- Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- Discourse Analysis
- Exploring French Linguistics
- Exploring Spanish Linguistics
- Ghosts on Screen
- Globalisation: Culture, Language and the Nation State
- Health, Culture, and Discrimination
- High, Popular, Mass Culture: Cultural Hybridity and Globalization in Latin America and Spain
- Innovation, Technology and the Environment
- Jews in Germany before the Holocaust
- Language and Society in the German-Speaking World
- Language, Power and Institutions: How Linguistic Practices Can Shape Our Lives
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Management Ethics
- Multilingualism
- Post-War French Thought and Culture
- Psycholinguistics
- Sound and Voice
- Syntax: Studying Language Structure
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- The EU and European Identity
- Variation and Change in English
- Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
- Residence Abroad Portfolio
- Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad Re-entry
- English as a Global Language
- Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and Documenting Displacement in Contemporary Spain
- Analytics Implementation III: Knowledge Management, Methods and Ethics
- Applied Research Project
- Audiovisual Translation
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business
- Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
- Fragmented France: Cultures and Identities in Transition
- French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
- International Business
- Language and Speech Disorders
- Language and the City
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
- Project Management
- Public Service Interpreting
- Risk Management
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sex, Gender and Desire
- Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World
- Sociophonetic Project Module
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Operations Management
- Technological Innovation
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton earn?
The median salary is £29,000 after 15 months, £26,000 after 3 years, £32,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £26,000 and £38,500.
What do graduates of BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton?
95% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 139 UCAS points.
Does BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BSc Modern Languages and Business Management (1 language: French, German or Spanish) at University of Southampton?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.