IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 63% (min 55% in all areas)
TOEFL: 90 (min R18, L17, S20, W17)
The Brunel Banking and Finance BSc provides students with the knowledge, skills and insights needed to effectively pursue careers in banking and financial services.
You’ll get a solid grounding in micro and macroeconomic principles, accounting practices and the workings of financial markets before studying advanced topics including real estate finance, financial regulation, risk management and how banking and financial systems operate in an international context.
You’ll also gain insight into the dynamic relationship between investors, financial markets and the institutions that enable transactions between the two.
You’ll study econometrics and develop highly valued skills in data modelling, and get training in analytical packages widely used by business and financial institutions such as Bloomberg, Reuters, SAS, EViews and STATA.
We offer two study options. You can choose three years full-time or four years full-time with a one-year professional placement between years two and three that will give you the chance to apply the theoretical principles you’ve learned to a working environment.
You can tailor the final year of your course to specialise in an area of particular interest.
Due to globalisation, banking and finance have become growth sectors for graduate vacancies. The specialised skills and training you’ll get from your Brunel BSc will make you a preferred job candidate to employers across the industry.
Course code: L130, L131 with placement
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Year 1
Compulsory
EC1005 - Mathematics for Economics and Finance
EC1010 - Microeconomic Principles
EC1020 - Macroeconomic Principles
EC1030 - Financial Markets
EC1040 - Introduction to Financial Accounting
EC1601 - Professional Skills and Statistics
Year 2
Compulsory
EC2601 - Money and Banking
AF2600 - Housing Finance
EC2604 - Economics of Information
EC2024 - Corporate Finance
EC2605 - Introduction to Econometrics
Optional
EC2002 - Macroeconomic Principles II
EC2003 - Financial Accounting and Statement Analysis
EC2004 - Company Law and Regulation
Year 3
Compulsory
EC3000 - Economics Project
AF3601 - Economics of Banking
AF3600 - Financial Regulation
Optional
EC3607 - Risk Management
EC3066 - Managerial and Industrial Economics
EC3601 - Behavioural Economics and Finance
EC3604 - International Money and Finance
EC3065 - Financial Engineering
EC3608 - Further Econometrics
AF3608 - Advanced Financial Reporting
Our aim is to teach you ‘employable knowledge’, which can be applied to real-world situations giving you the skills you need to find the right role after you graduate. Therefore, you’ll be well prepared for work, especially if you undertake a work placement. Securing economics and finance degree jobs is highly competitive so we’ll support you to gain a strong foundation in the skills employers are looking for. We offer opportunities within the Department of Economics and Finance as well as through the University’s Professional Development Centre (PDC) to help you build skills and experience.
Our graduates are employed in many fields, with roles at NatWest (Financing Futures), PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, the Treasury and Bank of England. Within industry, graduates are working at businesses like BP, Xerox and Marks and Spencer.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year