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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building)
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Finance is evolving rapidly through digital technologies, AI and fintech, creating new opportunities for people with strong business and financial knowledge. This degree is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand and respond to these changes, combining core knowledge and skills in business and finance with emerging technologies and contemporary financial practice. You will develop key business and financial skills, explore the latest fintech innovations and AI-powered financial tools, and build the entrepreneurial mindset needed to thrive in a changing financial environment. You will also gain a strong foundation in business finance principles, enabling you to understand market dynamics, global economic trends and policy impacts on financial decision-making. This combination will develop your ability to critically analyse economic environments and make informed strategic choices in a rapidly evolving global economy.
What's covered in this course?Throughout the course, you will develop practical and transferable skills in financial analysis, quantitative data analysis, risk assessment and evidence-based decision-making. You’ll learn to use AI, digital tools and emerging fintech technologies to analyse financial information, solve real-world problems and develop strategic, sustainable financial solutions. Through a combination of lectures, workshops, field trips, online learning and applied activities, you’ll also strengthen your communication, teamwork, critical thinking and professional judgement. These skills are reinforced through the BCU Award employability programme, helping you to apply your learning to real-world professional contexts. As a Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) education partner, the course is designed to develop the technical expertise, professional competencies and entrepreneurial mindset valued by employers across the finance sector. You’ll learn to navigate changing markets and financial environments, communicate complex financial information clearly and make informed decisions in a range of contexts. By graduation, you’ll have developed the confidence and skills to pursue a wide range of careers in finance, while also having the entrepreneurial skills to identify opportunities and develop your own ventures. The course team brings together years of industrial experience across Finance, AI, and Economics, complemented by a strong academic foundation. This diverse skill set means you are not only taught core financial principles but are also exposed to current thinking in areas such as digital innovation and emerging financial technologies, equipping you with skills that are relevant and sought after in today's job market. You will learn a great deal from the course team's breadth of knowledge and real-world experience, as you will be regularly engaging in inquiry-based and experiential learning designed to simulate work-based scenarios, bridging the gap between classroom theory and modern financial practice.
Professional Placement YearThis course offers an optional professional placement year. This allows you to spend a whole year with an employer, following successful completion of your second year, and is a great way to find out more about your chosen career. Some students even return to the same employers after completing their studies. If you choose to pursue a placement year, you will need to find a suitable placement to complement your chosen area of study. You will be able to draw on the University’s extensive network of local, regional, and national employers, and the support of our Careers teams. If you are able to secure a placement, you can request to be transferred to the placement version of the course. Please note that fees are payable during your placement year, equivalent to 20% of the total full-time course fee for that year.
This module introduces the students to basic finance as well as the financial world within which businesses operate. The module provides the basic foundation upon which other Level 5, 6 and 7 finance modules are designed.
This module is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of data intelligence tools and techniques, introducing you to the different approaches that are used to manage, mine and visualise complex data sets to facilitate effective decision-making within National and International organisations.
This module is designed to help students understand the quantitative methods necessary to allow progression in Finance, Investment, Business and Accounting professions. It also serves as an introduction to the various analytical approaches required in the manipulation and presentation of business type data and demonstrates how its analysis can be used to make commercially sensitive decisions.
Corporate Finance is a rigorous and comprehensive module that is designed to broaden your understanding of the main issues in modern corporate finance. Corporate Finance is concerned with how businesses raise funds and invest those funds to provide a return to investors. This module aims to equip you with the skills and knowledge required by a financial manager to make appropriate investment and financing decisions for a business in a global environment. Financial managers face many varied problems and tasks, and a common theme that underpins this module is the need for financial managers to be able value alternative courses of action and to make a decision on which is the best choice in financial terms.
This module focuses on the tools and techniques used by Operation Managers within service, manufacturing, private and public sector institutions to ensure activities are aligned with corporate and market objectives. The module requires you to apply a range of operations management tools and techniques to given scenarios in order to produce a range of verbal, written and numerical solutions focussed on the efficiency, effectiveness and economy of an operation’s processes.
This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to undertake a credit bearing, 40- week Professional Placement as an integral part of your Undergraduate Degree. The purpose of the Professional Placement is to improve your employability skills which will, through the placement experience, allow you to evidence your professional skills, attitudes and behaviours at the point of entry to the postgraduate job market. Furthermore, by completing the Professional Placement, you will be able to develop and enhance your understanding of the professional work environment, relevant to your chosen field of study, and reflect critically on your own professional skills development within the workplace.
A rise in importance and complexity of international financial management poses a challenge for multinational organizations and those wish to pursue a career in the sector. This module will provide you an intuitive and real world grasp of the concepts and issues in international finance which includes foreign exchange rate movements, managing exchange rate risks and foreign investment issues faced by of modern companies. A wealth of examples and cases are provided to enable you to see the implications of the subject to business, mostly from a multinational corporation’s perspective. You will be encouraged and supported to undertake case studies and investigate contemporary issues relating to international finance.
This module will help students in developing knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles and concepts relating to corporate finance and give the theoretical underpinnings of financial management in corporates. The course gives a broader understanding of the philosophies behind the financial management decisions, capital structure, dividend policies and current developments in and modern theories of finance. The module will enable students to evaluate research and synthesise information about corporate financial issues and problems, ability to solve quantitative problems, presentation of ideas, and participation in debates.
Financial technology (Fintech) integrate technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and data science into traditional financial services to make them safer, faster and more efficient. It is one of the fastest-growing industries, with companies innovating in almost every area of finance from mobile banking and insurance to cryptocurrency and investment apps, Fintech has broad applications.
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