Banking and Finance with a Professional Placement Year (BSc)

Cardiff University

United Kingdom, Cardiff

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Cardiff University

United Kingdom , Cardiff

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

Mix

Course Code

97K6

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 23,700 / year(s)

Banking and Finance with a Professional Placement Year (BSc)

About

Banking and Finance with a Professional Placement Year (BSc)

Why study this course

Learn from the best

Benefit from the expertise of a large, diverse faculty bringing unique insights from their own research into the classroom.

State-of-the-art facilities

Taught in our 65-terminal trading from throughout your degree, starting in first year.

Tailor your studies

All final-year modules are optional so you can choose the ones that best fit your interests and aspirations.

From portfolio management to forecasting prices and assessing risk, lessons from economics permeate throughout the banking and financial services sectors. As student on BSc Banking and Finance, you will receive a rigorous training in economics, and will learn to apply its cutting-edge mathematical, statistical and computational tools to financial analyses. Simultaneously, you will develop a critical understanding of the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks in which financial firms operate.

Formal analysis is, however, only one dimension of the skills you will develop on our programme. The world is a complicated place, and no analysis can hope to account for every eventuality. You will learn to make evidence-based decisions about how to simplify reality to make your analysis meaningful, and to defend your decisions convincingly. You will also learn how to communicate both the complexity and nuance of your analysis to a range of specialist and non-specialist audiences both verbally and in written form.

This programme incorporates a one-year professional placement. Supported by our Placements Team, you will gain real-world workplace experience, seeing first-hand how economics training provides unique, valuable insights to employers and how the skills you are developing equip you for life after university.

As a BSc Banking and Finance graduate, you will be highly sought after in many different occupations because of the uniquely diverse skillset you will develop. Not only do Cardiff graduates go on to have successful careers in leading firms in the financial sector, both in London and elsewhere, but also in a variety of roles across government, accountancy and consultancy. Many more continue their studies at postgraduate level.

Subject area: Economics

Cardiff Business School
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+44 (0)29 2087 4674
Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Disciplines

Cardiff Business School

Requirements

Entry Requirements

International Baccalaureate

34-31 overall or 666-665 in 3 HL subjects. Must include grade 6 in HL Maths.

English Program Requirements

GCSE

Grade C or grade 4 in GCSE English Language.

IELTS (academic)

At least 6.5 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each subskill.

TOEFL iBT

At least 90 overall with a minimum of 17 for writing, 17 for listening, 18 for reading, and 20 for speaking.

PTE Academic

At least 69 overall with a minimum of 59 in all communicative skills.

Trinity ISE II/III

II: at least two Distinctions and two Merits.
III: at least a Pass in all components.

Other accepted qualifications

Please visit our English Language requirements page for more information on our other accepted language qualifications.

Career

Careers

Career prospects

Economics is unique insofar as it develops the technical, analytical, and abstract thinking skills often associated with degrees in quantitative subjects alongside the critical evaluation, argument and communication skills more common in qualitative degrees. For this reason, UK economics graduates consistently have some of the highest employability rates and graduate earnings of any subject. Graduates from our programme regularly go on to work as professional economists, or in associated industries such as finance, banking, accountancy, consultancy or financial journalism.

The Banking and Finance (BSc) degree embeds employability throughout the programme. Some modules, such as Professional Skills for Economists explicitly focus on the range of skills a successful economist should bring to bear, and are strongly aligned to the Universityâ€™s graduate attributes. The range of learning activities and assessments adopted on other modules, from 24-hour policy briefs and more detailed economic analyses of contemporary issues to presentations and short videos, provide the chance to hone your skills through the kind of activities economics graduates often go on to do in their careers.

Your professional placement year will give you hands-on experience applying the skills you develop in the workplace. You will see how economics can yield important insights in a wide range of roles and sectors and develop a range of experiences that can be called upon when applying for permanent jobs.