Specialising in Banking and Finance gives you a unique opportunity to gain theoretical and practical knowledge of both disciplines. You'll learn why banks exist and how banks operate in the modern economy, while exploring and critiquing current issues in modern banking. As you learn about the global financial system from teh viewpoint of the investor, the analyst, the academic and the policy maker, you'll also be learning from banking specialists who are active banking researchers with practical banking experience. Alongside your education in the principles of banking and finance, you also become fluent in your choice of one or more modern languages. Your year abroad will give you an outstanding experience of living, engaging and integrating into another culture and society.

Banks and other financial institutions are looking for numerate, articulate graduates with critical and analytical skills, and our accounting, finance and banking courses equip you with this. We produce graduates with the knowledge to start their careers in the financial sector, in areas such as banking, stock broking, derivatives, insurance, and regulation. In addition, learning a foreign language will provide you with much sought-after skills in communication, both written and spoken. At a time when companies and organisations in the UK and abroad are struggling to find university graduates who are fluent in more than just English, having a studied a foreign language as part of your course places you in a very advantageous position. These skills have value in a job market that is becoming increasingly global and will be appreciated by employers, whatever career path you follow.br/> Our graduates now have careers as traders, investment bankers, equity analysts, fund managers, risk managers and researchers, and work at leading City and government institutions like the Bank of England, Citigroup, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Industrial Bank of Japan and HM Treasury. In addition, many now work in managerial positions in business and commercial sectors.