Studies
BUT
Read as a wordOfficialB2Meaning
bachelor universitaire de technologie
The three-year degree of university technology institutes, which replaced the DUT in 2021. It is worth a bachelor's and is often done as a work-study programme.
How it is said
but
Gender and article
un BUT · masculine
Where you meet it
A university brochure, a recent CV, an enrolment platform.
Example
BUT informatique : 24 places en alternance à la rentrée.
BUT in computing: 24 work-study places this autumn.
In the DELF
reading B2
Watch out
Read « but », like the word, in official texts; in the IUTs you also hear bé-u-té. In a CV from before 2021, read DUT: the former two-year diploma.