The Brunel Banking and Finance BSc provides students with the knowledge, skills and insights needed to effectively pursue careers in banking and financial services.

You’ll get a solid grounding in micro and macroeconomic principles, accounting practices and the workings of financial markets before studying advanced topics including real estate finance, financial regulation, risk management and how banking and financial systems operate in an international context.

You’ll also gain insight into the dynamic relationship between investors, financial markets and the institutions that enable transactions between the two.

You’ll study econometrics and develop highly valued skills in data modelling, and get training in analytical packages widely used by business and financial institutions such as Bloomberg, Reuters, SAS, EViews and STATA.

The placement year costs £1,385.

Entry Requirements

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Course Content

This course is designed to give you a thorough knowledge of the economics of banking and finance.

Your banking and finance degree consists of compulsory and optional modules and a final 10,000-word dissertation.

Teaching and Learning

Our staff have national and international reputations for their research, publications and applied work. This means that your education will be innovative, inspiring and cover the most up-to-date industry knowledge.

Your banking and finance course will consist of lectures, workshops, seminars, one-to-one supervision, guest speakers from industry and site visits.

You will have 12 to 14 hours of directed study a week in Level 1. This number decreases in Levels 2 and 3. Students are also expected to undertake substantial independent study.

Year 1

Mathematics for Economics and Finance

Microeconomic Principles

Macroeconomic Principles

Financial Markets

Introduction to Financial Accounting

Professional Skills and Statistics

Year 2

Money and Banking

Housing Finance

Economics of Information

Corporate Finance

Introduction to Econometrics

Placement Year

Year 4

Core Modules:
Economics Project
Economics of Banking
Financial Regulation

Optional Modules:
Risk Management
Managerial and Industrial Economics
Behavioural Economics and Finance
International Money and Finance
Financial Engineering
Further Econometrics
Advanced Financial Reporting

Careers

We offer opportunities within the Department of Economics and Finance as well as through the University’s Professional Development Centre (PDC) to help you build skills and experience.

Our graduates are employed in many fields, with roles at NatWest (Financing Futures), PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, the Treasury and Bank of England. Within industry, graduates are working at businesses like BP, Xerox and Marks and Spencer