Course length: Three years full-time, four years with a placement. This course provides a solid grounding in the threshold concepts of economics, using its distinctive perspectives to critically analyse decisions involving the participants, institutions and instruments of finance and banking. You will learn about the important role of finance and banking in affecting investment and growth as well as develop crucial employment skills in the tools and techniques of financial analysis.t provides a solid grounding in the threshold concepts of economics, using its distinctive perspectives to critically analyse decisions involving the participants, institutions and instruments of finance and banking. You will learn about the important role of finance and banking in affecting investment and growth as well as develop crucial employment skills in the tools and techniques of financial analysis. You will be exposed to a variety of economic perspectives and develop quantitative and qualitative skills of analysis. You will have access to our Trading Room, which gives students the simulated experience of working in the fast-moving world of shares trading. The course can be studied over three years full-time or four years with a placement. Full-time students can choose to complete a short internship, study abroad, set up their own enterprise, or run a community project, during the second half of Year Two.

We have an exceptional employment record with 94% of graduates employed or in further education six months after leaving. (Latest DLHE Survey Undergraduate results 2013/14) Graduates from BA (Hons) Economics, Finance and Banking, now known as BA (Hons) Economics, International Finance and Banking have gone on to work in both the public and private sector, undertaking positions such as: financial analyst investment banker operations assistant audit associate business centre manager. In the last few years, our graduates have gone on to work for well-known organisations such as KPMG Amazon NHS Menzies Credit Suisse Group.