Maynooth University

Course Details

BA Finance

Course Description

Overview Consider Finance if you are interested in: learning about the financial sector - made up of lenders and borrowers, big investors and small savers, risk lovers and risk haters, innovators and regulators understanding why currencies rise and fall, stock markets boom and bust, property values soar and crash and why interest rates fluctuate learning how the financial system works from the perspective of the borrower and of the lender, how assets are traded, how international markets are linked, how governments try to control financial markets, and how financial markets respond learning how to use analytical tools – including mathematics, deductive logic and applied statistics – to examine problems and devise logical solutions the opportunity to take a single major in Finance or a major/minor with another Arts subject.

Course Duration

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3year

Career outcomes

Career Options Finance graduates have strong numeracy skills coupled with an ability to think critically and analytically – invaluable assets in a wide range of employment spheres. Graduates can be found in the banking and financial services industry, economic consultancy, finance/economic units of public and private sector organisations, financial/economic research, journalism, and teaching. Some graduates undertake further study to qualify as accountants; they can receive exemptions from equivalent examination papers from the professional accounting bodies. Postgraduate students are also to be found working in financial institutions, both public and private, in Dublin, London, New York, and elsewhere.




BA Finance Maynooth University