Accounting and Finance (including Foundation Year) BSc (Hons)
Kingston University
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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16-SEP-24

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**Reasons to choose Kingston**- Students can access a network of highly regarded practitioners from prestigious institutions and participate in bespoke business visits.- Kingston is one of a few UK universities with a real-time Bloomberg trading room. This will give you access to the technology used by financial organisations to make critical decisions about risk, investments and markets.- The course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered ...Read more


Reasons to choose Kingston

- Students can access a network of highly regarded practitioners from prestigious institutions and participate in bespoke business visits.- Kingston is one of a few UK universities with a real-time Bloomberg trading room. This will give you access to the technology used by financial organisations to make critical decisions about risk, investments and markets.- The course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and offers partial exemptions from their professional exams.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.


This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Business

The foundation year takes place the year before your degree. You will study at Kingston College and cover topics including professional skills, numerical concepts, business IT, marketing, customer care, and business law. Upon successful completion of this foundation year, you will progress to Year 1 of this degree.


About this course

This course offers hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of financial accounting, management accounting, and finance. It will help you develop the intellectual skills necessary to evaluate and critique both theoretical and practical aspects of accounting and finance. Your studies will reflect the digital transformation in the industry. Our teaching team has a wealth of commercial experience, and you’ll enhance your career prospects by joining industry speakers and employer networking events. Our careers team are on hand to help you land your dream internship and graduate job. You’ll also have the opportunity to gain Bloomberg Certification and take part in activities to boost your CV


Future Skills

Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.


Career opportunities

This course is an ideal start for a career as a financial accountant, management accountant, auditor, treasurer, financial analyst, or banking advisor.Many of our graduates use their accounting and finance knowledge and skills in a variety of roles and organisations. For example, some work for Bloomberg, the NHS and Tesco. We've also had students gaining training contracts with the ‘Big Four', including Deloitte and KPMG.

WUSCA ranking
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52/81
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
59th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
87th
Accounting
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 88 = 12% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
12%
Employment rate
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60%
Average salary
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Accounting graduate salary at this uni
£20,000
UK Accounting graduate salary
£24,000
What students say
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Vishnee
07 Feb 24

Great support from all lecturers and friendly and welcoming environment...Read more

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Fatma
28 Nov 23

Nice..Read more

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A level

A level:

CC Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

64 Grades / Points required

Access to HE Diploma:

M:15,P:30 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

MM Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

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Not currently available, please contact university for up to date information.

UCAS points from a minimum of 2 A-Levels or equivalent Level 3 qualifications.GCSE Mathematics grade 4 / C or above is required for this course.

Equivalent of 64 UCAS points from an Access course in a related subject. Applicants under 21 years will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Popular A-level subjects

Accounting

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Mathematics
49%
Business Studies
28%
Economics
23%
Chemistry
18%
Information & Communication technology
17%
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England

£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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16,200 per year

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Students from International

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Year 1 (2024/25): £16,200 ; Year 2 (2025/26): £16,800; Year 3 (2026/27): £17,500; Year 4 (2027/28): £18,200.

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07 Feb 24
Accounting and Finance BSc (Hons)
Great support from all lecturers and friendly and welcoming environment....
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Kingston University , Kingston upon Thames

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Yorkon Building Kingston University Kingston upon Thames London KT2 7LB United Kingdom
Nearest tube station: Wimbledon  1.6 miles away Nearest train station: Norbiton  0.9 miles away
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