Finance Undergraduate Programme By Birkbeck, University of London |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

Finance

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Our BSc Finance is designed to provide you with a core set of technically demanding, yet applications-oriented, skills in finance. It will equip you with essential skills and knowledge to enable you to compete successfully in a competitive jobs market.

Why choose this course?

  • We have an excellent reputation for the quality of our teaching. Our academics are professional practitioners in the world of economics and finance who provide specialist advice and in-house training for government departments and City firms and banks, including the Treasury and Bank of England.
  • Your tutors are actively working to extend the boundaries of knowledge. Many of our academics are recognised as world-class experts in their fields and their research feeds directly into our teaching programmes.

What you will learn

You will begin by attaining the IT, professional and quantitative skills you need to be successful in this degree. You will gain knowledge of how financial institutions and markets work in the UK, alongside introductory accounting and economics. This will equip you with the skills required to read and understand financial journals or simple balance sheets. You will also have the opportunity to follow your career interests taking modules from a range of options such as portfolio management and behavioural economics and finance.

How you will learn

This BSc Finance is  is available for full- or part-time study and is  taught through a combination of lectures which provide you with foundational knowledge and small-group tutorials which offer you hands-on learning.  It  has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening, so you can balance studies with work or other commitments. 

Programme overview

Main Subject

Finance

Degree

BSc

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

Our BSc Finance is designed to provide you with a core set of technically demanding, yet applications-oriented, skills in finance. It will equip you with essential skills and knowledge to enable you to compete successfully in a competitive jobs market.

Why choose this course?

  • We have an excellent reputation for the quality of our teaching. Our academics are professional practitioners in the world of economics and finance who provide specialist advice and in-house training for government departments and City firms and banks, including the Treasury and Bank of England.
  • Your tutors are actively working to extend the boundaries of knowledge. Many of our academics are recognised as world-class experts in their fields and their research feeds directly into our teaching programmes.

What you will learn

You will begin by attaining the IT, professional and quantitative skills you need to be successful in this degree. You will gain knowledge of how financial institutions and markets work in the UK, alongside introductory accounting and economics. This will equip you with the skills required to read and understand financial journals or simple balance sheets. You will also have the opportunity to follow your career interests taking modules from a range of options such as portfolio management and behavioural economics and finance.

How you will learn

This BSc Finance is  is available for full- or part-time study and is  taught through a combination of lectures which provide you with foundational knowledge and small-group tutorials which offer you hands-on learning.  It  has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening, so you can balance studies with work or other commitments. 

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