Management & Modern Languages (French, German, Portuguese or Spanish) with a year abroad King's College London

Overview

With strong links to the business world surrounding our central London campus, our students from the Management & Modern Languages (French, German, Portuguese or Spanish) with a year abroad at King's College London have excellent networking opportunities and a wealth of entrepreneurial, business and economic societies to engage with and enhance their studies.

Key benefits

• You can study French, German, Spanish or Portuguese language either post A-level (or equivalent) or with no previous knowledge of the language (ab initio).

• We use a broad approach to provide a foundation of core modules in the principal disciplines and give you the opportunity to specialise in areas of particular interest.

• Research-led curriculum encourages critical analysis and debate on a wide range of contemporary management issues.

• Students from over 50 countries create an international environment for learning, bringing a diverse range of perspectives to the course.

• Graduates are highly employable, entering into careers that include banking, consultancy, accountancy, marketing, advertising and management.

• French, German and Spanish have been taught at King's since 1831 and Portuguese since the 1860s, making us one of the oldest modern languages programmes in the country.

• Our language departments are consistently voted among the best in the UK and offer our graduates excellent career prospects.

Career destinations

Studies of graduate employability repeatedly stress the career value of language degrees, which provide graduates with international experience and enhancing cultural awareness, helping them to develop flexibility, resilience and resourcefulness. Employers value foreign language ability, not just as a specialist skill, but as a personal quality that develops relationship-building, teamwork, and the capacity to move easily in international contexts. Typical destinations of KCL Modern Languages graduates include international business, the press and media, IT and technology, marketing and public relations, public administration, international development, law, finance, teaching and lecturing, interpreting, translating and others.