University of Essex
BSc Finance and Management
Colchester, United Kingdom
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Full time
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Introduction
BSc Finance and Management
Do you want to gain an understanding of how businesses make financial decisions? Would you like to study at a business school with highly respected finance and management academics, with some of Britain’s most satisfied students?
Individuals who understand management and finance are in increasing demand by employers. This course is designed to give you career flexibility after graduation. We help you to develop the quantitative skills appropriate for the finance sector, as well as the qualitative, discursive skills appropriate for management and leadership, whether you seek to lead a finance team within an organisation, pursue a career as a financial analyst or use your business knowledge to work in any area of management. In your third year, you also have the option to undertake a paid work placement to develop your professional skills and further enhance your CV.
Our BSc Finance and Management degree teaches you about how businesses make financial decisions and study international financial markets. Your management modules also develop the necessary skills and knowledge to be an effective leader.
We use real-life examples to apply theory to practice and you regularly have access to our virtual trading floor. Here, you can learn how to use real-world Bloomberg data, information and analytics to make better business decisions and practise trading stocks.
You'll study topics including:
- management, innovation and new technologies
- organisational behaviour
- business strategy
- human resource management
- corporate finance
- financial management
- portfolio analysis
- financial modelling
- risk management
- financial markets and trading
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Quantitative Methods and Finance
- Introduction to Finance
- Introduction to Management
- Professional and Academic Development (Finance)
- Understanding Value and Values
- Introduction to Accounting I
- Introduction to Economics
Year 2
- Organisational Behaviour
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Modelling
- Business Strategy
- Portfolio Analysis
- Research Methods in Management and Marketing
- Leadership in Organisations
- Successful Futures
Final Year
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Options and Futures
- Risk Management and Financial Institutions
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
All of our taught modules embed elements of our skills map which emulate the skills which are required by employers of finance graduates, these generally include:
- Academic and cognitive skills
- Research skills
- Technology skills
- Communication skills
- Data analysis skills
- Soft skills
Our students have gone on to become financial analysts, risk analysts and management trainees, with recent graduate destinations including:
- Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse - a leading financial services company
- Audit Associate at EY - a multinational professional services firm
- Executive at PwC - a multinational professional services network
Program delivery
BSc Finance and Management: 3 years
BSc Finance and Management (Including Year Abroad): 4 years
BSc Finance and Management (Including Placement Year): 4 years