Portuguese/Business and Management

Portuguese and business and management is a combination that brings together one of the world's most widely spoken languages with a rigorous understanding of how organisations operate in markets and societies. Portuguese is spoken by around 250 million people across Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, and other countries, making it a genuinely global language with significant commercial, cultural, and diplomatic weight. Business and management provides the theoretical and practical frameworks for understanding strategy, leadership, organisational behaviour, and markets.

Together, the two subjects prepare you for a career with an explicitly international dimension.

At the University of Glasgow this five-year full-time programme gives you the chance to develop your Portuguese language skills to a high level while building a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of business and management. You will study organisational behaviour, marketing, accounting, finance, strategy, and operations, alongside Portuguese language, literature, and the cultures of the Lusophone world. A sandwich year is incorporated into the degree, and a work placement is built into the programme, giving you professional experience alongside your academic development.

Graduates from this programme are well placed for careers in international business, trade, development, diplomacy, and organisations working across the Lusophone world. Brazil, as one of the world's largest economies, offers significant commercial opportunities, and Portuguese-speaking Africa is an increasingly important arena for development and investment. Roles in multinational companies, NGOs, government bodies, financial institutions, and the consultancy sector all draw on the combination of language skill and business understanding this degree develops.

Further study in business, international relations, or Portuguese and Lusophone studies is another common path for graduates who wish to deepen their expertise.