Business Management (with a modern language) Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

Profits aren’t the only thing driving businesses. We believe you need to conduct business in a sustainable and ethical way to be an effective manager. Our values underpin everything we do here at Manchester Met.

Business management includes everything you could want from a business degree, from expertise in our research areas of sustainability, strategy, and enterprise to events like our leadership series of guest lectures.

This course give you the opportunity to study business management in combination with another language. Adding a modern language to your degree means you can develop as a more effective communicator, acquire linguistic skills and develop a wider cultural awareness. You can choose from French, Modern Standard Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.

Career

A language and business management focused degree allows you to learn many transferable skills that can be used in a multitude of jobs, teaching, translation and interpreting are popular pathways.

Adding a language, whatever you choose it to be, makes you stand out in applications. The economic, business and diplomatic opportunities provided by the languages we offer will give you a competitive edge in the jobs market. Languages graduates are also sought after in many different industries, with recent graduates being offered positions in a variety of different sectors both in the UK and abroad. 

Our Business Management (with a modern language) graduates from Manchester Metropolitan University go on to a huge variety of roles in organisations ranging from small local start-ups to large firms like O2, KP Snacks, or BNY Mellon. Many decide to join graduate schemes with companies like IBM or BMW. With our focus on practical career skills you’ll be an attractive prospect for any company.