BUT Carrières Sociales – Assistance sociale at Université de La Réunion

Programme overview

The BUT Carrières Sociales (Social Careers), Assistance sociale pathway, is a three-year university bachelor of technology (180 ECTS) preparing for social-sector professions. Students can reach the social-worker diploma route through the university's 'dispositif d'excellence'. It is taught on the Terre-Sainte campus with a first-year intake of 27 places.

Faculty: Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) | Duration: 3 years (180 ECTS) | Study mode: full-time; taught in French | Intake: September | Location: Saint-Denis, Outre-mer, France

What you will study

The course follows a competence-based approach built on four competence blocks, starting with designing interventions adapted to social challenges, and includes social analysis, research methods in the humanities and supervised placements.

Career pathways

Assistant de service social (via the excellence route), social facilitator in territorial and associative structures and other social-intervention roles.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Entry to the first year of the BUT is through Parcoursup after the baccalauréat; selection looks at all grades with particular attention to literary and humanities subjects (history-geography, economics and social sciences, law, philosophy, English) and French grades. Open to general baccalauréats and the technological baccalauréat ST2S, among others.

Domestic applicants: EUR 178 a year (2026/2027). National registration fee set by the Ministry (applies to EU/EEA students and to non-EU students exempt from differentiated fees). Non-EU students not exempt pay differentiated fees (amount not stated on the page). Excludes the CVEC (105 euros for 2026-20 Source

Intake: September

Duration: 3 years (180 ECTS)

Apply through the official page: https://www.parcoursup.gouv.fr/

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