International Business with French

International business with a language is a degree that takes seriously the insight that global commerce is conducted by people, and that people communicate, negotiate, and build trust through language and culture as much as through contracts and spreadsheets. Combining the study of business strategy and management with genuine linguistic and cultural competence in French gives you a set of skills that purely technical business graduates do not have, and that international organisations increasingly recognise as essential.

At Queen's University Belfast, this four-year full-time degree develops graduates with the global mindset and the cultural intelligence needed to work effectively in international markets. You will build foundational knowledge across the key functions of business, exploring how organisations compete, expand, and adapt to operating across national borders. The French component develops your language skills to a professional level alongside deepening your understanding of French-speaking cultures, their commercial environments, and their approaches to business and professional life.

Queen's Business School emphasises that success in foreign markets requires not just business knowledge but the ability to adapt to local cultures, languages, and customers, and the programme is designed to develop exactly that combination. Global leaders, the programme's philosophy holds, cultivate cultural intelligence through language study and international engagement, and the degree is designed to provide both.

You will graduate with a genuinely international perspective, strong business analytical skills, and the linguistic competence to work in a Francophone professional environment.

Graduates go on to careers in international management, consultancy, trade, finance, and any field where operating across French-speaking markets matters. Many pursue postgraduate study in international business, management, or related fields, and the language component opens additional paths in diplomacy, international development, and European institutions. The combination of business knowledge and French fluency is particularly valued by firms with operations or clients in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and across Africa.