This newly designed course is focused on equipping you with the specialised skills and knowledge crucial for success in today’s financial industry. It gives you a thorough understanding of core areas of modern financial markets such as risk and investment management, banking and regulation, pricing and hedging and corporate finance. In addition, you will develop valuable professional skills in critical thinking, teamwork, communication and information technology, for example through practical problem-solving exercises and trading-floor simulations. Our BSc in Finance provides a highly practical and vocational learning programme, while other UK universities offer finance only in combination with other subjects. Our in-depth course material is complemented with practical skills training, cutting-edge software and simulations of real-life situations in the financial markets, all led by a group of globally well known and respected finance faculty with many years of experience in both academia and industry. The groundbreaking design of the BSc and our faculty’s expertise in the field serve to ensure you the highest quality of undergraduate education and the foundation for a very successful career.

This degree provides an excellent foundation for careers in all areas of the financial industry and across the broader business community, which today relies heavily on a detailed understanding of the modern financial markets. Our graduates will be well prepared for specialised roles within the financial services such as investment banking, trading, risk analysis, portfolio management and corporate finance. This presents attractive employment opportunities across a wide spectrum of companies and organisations including banks, fund managers, consulting and risk advisory firms, exchanges, governments and regulatory bodies as well as roles within the corporate development, finance or risk divisions of many large international corporations.