The Food Business with Chinese Studies program reflects the changing market landscape, and aims to develop graduates with the skills and talent urgently required by both the Irish and the international food industry. With Brexit and the uncertainty involving the UK market, export expansion to the emerging markets has critical strategic importance to the food industry and the overall economy.

The changing market landscape requires improved foreign language capability to facilitate access to new markets, and to help sustain and strengthen the modern agri-food and agribusiness companies.

Students will complete year three of their studies at Renmin University of China (RUC) in Beijing, where they will take intermediate or advanced Chinese language courses and a range of interesting and relevant modules. There will be a limited number of language scholarship opportunities available on a competitive basis that will cover tuition fees and accommodation for either one or two trimesters in China.