About the course

Reasons to study

1. You’ll learn using industry-standard software in our Trading Room to ensure you’re well prepared to start your graduate career.
2. Study at an AACSB International accredited Business School. Globally, less than 6% of institutions offering business degrees achieve this accreditation.
3. Our optional modules cover key management skills such as Productivity Improvement and Reward Management which widen your business knowledge and transferable skills to take into an ever growing intercultural business environment.

This course is ideal if you’re looking to pursue a career in international financial markets and the banking sector. The course will enable you to develop your understanding, and critically evaluate the theories affecting the financial services sector, financial management and capital markets, as well as the important issues facing banking and economics systems.

The programme is supported with our state-of-the-art Trading Room which is equipped with professional software, providing up-to-date market data and financial analysis tools giving students a feel for how to deal responsibly with financial and economic market data. The Trading Room provides simulation of what it is like to work in the financial industry and provide experience of a real life financial markets environment, thus enhancing your experience and employability.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for this course are normally:

• An Honours degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent professional qualification in Finance, Accountancy, Economics, Business and Management or a Quantitative Science.
• Applicants with other professional qualifications and/or experience will be considered individually.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our Where are you from information pages.