Overview
Banking and International Finance BSc (Hons) Who is it for?
You’ll benefit from academic rigour and a strong emphasis on practical, vocation learning in an international context.
Our banking and finance BSc degree courses are for students who want to progress with the knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the increasingly competitive world of global finance and banking.
Your goal is a career in the global banking industry, with no limitations on the country where you end up working. As a vocational course, BSc Banking and International Finance is tailor-made for your ambition to go straight into a job in banking after you graduate. Thinking about a postgraduate qualification? Its academic rigour will prepare you equally well for further study.
*Join the faculty ranked 10th in Europe for Finance.
Successfully obtaining the in BSc Banking and International Finance allows exemption from the exams of the following professional bodies:
Course objectives
Our three finance and banking degrees (Finance, Banking and International Finance, and Investment and Financial Risk Management) provide detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing and acquisition decisions and how modern banks operate.
Whether your interest is domestic or international, this well balanced course has been designed to propel you to the top of the industry.
We offer a wide variety of specialisations: central banking, managerial finance, commercial and retail banking, financial analysis, operations, or strategy.
You can also choose how you complement your core modules, choosing from a wide variety of optional modules including quantitative techniques and financial management, all of which will allow you to gain a good understanding of financial markets, its activities, and its products.
The jobs in this field are both exciting and well paid. They demand intellectual rigour and commercial acumen, and by selecting this course, you too can prepare yourself with the skills and competencies these jobs require.
Teaching staff
Accreditation details
ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
Knowledge
- F1 Accountant in Business (AB)
- F2 Management Accounting (MA)
- F3 Financial Accounting (FA).
Skills
- F5 Performance Management (PM)
- F7 Financial Reporting (FR).
CII (Chartered Insurance Institute)
- CII Insurance students: 530 Business and Economics (worth 30 credits at Advanced Diploma level), 25 non-unit specific credits at Diploma level
- CII Financial Planning students: 30 non unit specific credits at Advanced Diploma level, 25 non unit-specific credits at Diploma level.
CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
Certificate Level
- BA1 Business Economics
- BA2 Management Accounting
- BA3 Financial Accounting
- BA4 Ethics, Corporate Governance & Business Law
- C01 Fundamentals of Management Accounting
- C02 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
- C03 Fundamentals of Business Mathematics
- C04 Fundamentals of Business Economics
- C05 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law.
Operational Level
- E1 Managing Finance in a Digital world
- P1 Management Accounting
- F1 Financial Reporting and Taxation.
Management Level
- P2 Advanced Management Accounting.
CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy)
Professional Certificate
- Financial Accounting
- Management Accounting.
Professional Diploma
- Financial Management.
ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
- Accounting
- Business and Finance
- Management Information
- Financial Management.
ICAS (The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)
Test of Competence
- Financial Accounting
- Finance.
The London Institute of Banking & Finance
- Direct entry into Stage 2 (second year; FHEQ level 5) of the BSc Banking Practice & Management degree.
