Finance is about investing, with a focus on how to value assets and manage risk. Studying a degree in Finance will help you to understand how stock markets and financial institutions function, and how they can be used by both investors and corporations. The BSc Finance degree at Queen’s Management School is highly rated and our students consistently obtain high level graduate positions. 90% of Finance students from Queen’s are in full-time employment and/or studying within six months of graduation, with 90% of those in a professional or managerial position.

Students undertake a minimum of nine months in a work placement. These placements are in Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, and London. The organisations and the functions in which students are currently placed include: Investment Banks (investment analysts): Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Accountancy Firms (management consultants): Grant Thornton, KPMG, Ernst & Young, PWC Corporate Banks (corporate and security analysis): Lloyds TSB, Barclays Corporate Insurance Companies (risk assessors): Aviva, Allianz, Prudential and Irish Life Specialist Financial Firms (traders): First Derivatives, Setanta Asset Management, SIG. Actuarial Firms (back office processors): Mercer Plc Pension Consultancy: Xafinity, Kerr Henderson General Companies (finance functions): Abbot, Lagan Technologies, Microsoft, NI Civil Service, Oxford Economics, Queen's University Belfast Finance, Singer, Terex, Vion Foods and Xerox,