Banking and Finance

About this programme

Consider a professional placement year or year of study abroad between your second and final years. Benefit from the expertise of a large, diverse faculty bringing unique insights from their own research into the classroom. Taught in our 56-terminal trading room throughout your degree, starting in the first year. All final-year modules are optional so you can choose the ones that best fit your interests and aspirations. From portfolio management to forecasting prices and assessing risk, lessons from economics permeate throughout the banking and financial services sectors. As a student on BSc Banking and Finance, you will receive a rigorous training in economics, and will learn to apply its cutting-edge mathematical, statistical and computational tools to financial analyses. Simultaneously, you will develop a critical understanding of the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks in which financial firms operate. Formal analysis is, however, only one dimension of the skills you will develop on our programme. The world is a complicated place, and no analysis can hope to account for every eventuality. You will learn to make evidence-based decisions about how to simplify reality to make your analysis meaningful, and to defend your decisions convincingly. You will also learn how to communicate both the complexity and nuance of your analysis to a range of specialist and non-specialist audiences both verbally and in written form. As a BSc Banking and Finance graduate, you will be highly sought after in many different occupations because of the uniquely diverse skillset you wi