If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Sound financial management lies at the heart of every successful business: to generate sufficient income, optimise resources, reduce risk and gain a good return on investments. This course aims to equip you with a skillset in finance and business management to strategically plan, organise, direct and control finances.
Our Finance and Management degree is specifically designed to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving global finance sector. A multidisciplinary programme, it combines financial theory and practice with business management education, with specific focus on ethics and sustainability, to prepare you for a fast track and rewarding career in the international financial services sector or in management.
With an emphasis on learning through practice, we’ll discuss the 2008 financial crisis and explore topics including taxation, financial management, financial markets, business ethics and game theory. You will gain a sound grasp of financial systems and procedures, while developing your skills for complex modelling and analysis. You’ll gain hands-on experience of common business computing and software, including Datastream, EViews, SPSS with an extensive introduction and training in the Bloomberg system.
You will learn to analyse financial markets to forecast financial performance. In doing so, you’ll use real data – live and historic – in our Finance Markets Suite (FMS) with its replica trading floor. You’ll also hear direct from current professionals: for example, in the third year, we visit the London Stock Exchange Group, where you can learn all about its history and how it has evolved into the international market it is today. An expert trainer, typically with direct experience as a fund manager, explains how modern markets work.
Business School graduates have gone on to work for large banks and other financial institutions, including Vanguard, Standard Chartered, Citibank, Société Générale and Paribas, and governmental agencies, such as the World Economic Forum.
Our course was designed with input from a range of industry professionals with expertise in financial markets, institutions and financial regulation. To retain currency and relevance, we receive ongoing feedback from the School’s Employability Advisory Board, whose members include practitioner representatives from Vanguard, JPMorgan and Global Structured Finance, as well as former students now working in the finance industry who provide suggestions on how to improve future employability for students.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Creating and Managing an Online Presence
Introduction to Finance
Introduction to Financial Markets
Marketing Principles
Mathematics for Finance
People and Organisations
The Role of the Manager
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Corporate Finance
Corporate Financial Management
Leadership and Management
Managing People
Operations and Digital Business
Project Management
Securities Analysis
Credit Level 5
Placement year
Optional work placement/study abroad year
Between Years 2 and 3, you can take an optional work placement or study year abroad. The work placement year is a one-year full-time business work placement. Past students have completed placements in a variety of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and prestigious organisations, including Barclays Bank, British Airways, Disney UK, IBM and the National Health Service (NHS). The study abroad year allows you to follow a programme of study at one of our partner institutions, giving you the opportunity to experience life in another country and learn Business from a different cultural viewpoint.
You can also choose to split your year abroad into a first semester exchange and a second semester work placement, both conducted overseas.
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Advanced Corporate Finance
Current Themes in Finance
Elements of Commercial Law
Global Financial Markets and Institutions
Global Strategic Management
International Investments
Personal Finance
Professional Experience Project
Project and Programme Management
Sustainable Business
Credit Level 6
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
Analyst or researcher
Business development manager
Financial advisor
HR business partner
Management consultant
Graduate employers
Graduates from the Business School have found employment at organisations including:
Amazon
Citibank
Financial Conduct Authority
Paribas
Santander
Sberbank
Société Générale
Standard Chartered
World Economic Forum
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
