This three-year honours degree (formerly the BSc International Securities, Investment and Banking) will provide students with thorough preparation for a career in the financial markets. Through a combination of academic rigour and practical skill-building, we aim to provide the most in-depth study of finance and investment banking. he BSc Finance and Investment Banking is an official CFA program partner. In the words of the CFA Institute itself: “CFA partners with globally diverse, high profile institutions who cover a significant portion of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge and who embrace the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct in their degree programs. Recognition as a CFA Program Partner provides a signal to potential students, current students, and the marketplace that the university curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well suited to preparing students to sit for the CFA exams.”[1] The partnership comes with a series of benefits to the ICMA Centre and its undergraduate students.

Here at the ICMA Centre, we recognise the importance of career development and have integrated specialist career management into the programme, thereby providing our students with a tool kit to help them achieve their career aspirations. Our graduates enter the market with knowledge and skills to enable them to gain excellent careers in areas such as sales and trading, asset management, operations and risk management. Our statistics show that typically more than 90% of graduates are in employment or further study within 6 months of graduating.