BSc (Banking And Finance)

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You'll study your Banking and Finance degree at Leeds University Business School. Here you'll graduate with the eligibility to gain full Chartered Banker status, giving you a head start for your career.

£9250

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3 Years

Course Details

You'll study your Banking and Finance degree at Leeds University Business School. Here you'll graduate with the eligibility to gain full Chartered Banker status, giving you a head start for your career.

You’ll be taught by experts in our renowned Business School, recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Chartered Banker Institute (CBI) for the quality of our teaching.

The course provides a thorough grounding in both theory and current practice, including specialist modules in commercial banking, investment banking and risk management in banking.

You’ll also develop the analytical, quantitative, research and communication skills required by leading employers in retail and investment banking, the City and financial services more generally.

Leeds is one of the largest city regions for financial and business services in the UK, which makes it an ideal place to study banking and finance. You'll also have a range of opportunities to gain relevant work experience within the sector.

This course offers pathways from Year 2, which allow you to tailor your course to your specific interests or professional aspirations. The pathways provide modules that can be taken in particular areas and can be followed through to your final year. 

This unique level of personalisation and self-direction provides you with the flexibility to meet your career goals, whilst helping you stand out from the crowd when you graduate.

 

The pathways available on this course are:?

  • Economics
  • Enterprise and Innovation
  • Ethics and Sustainability
  • Business Management

 

Course Highlights:

  • Choose to take an optional year in industry to gain practical experience, or immerse yourself in a new culture by spending a year studying in a different country at one of our many partner universities across the world.
  • You’ll have access to our two state-of-the-art trading rooms, helping you develop practical skills for your career. You'll have the chance to gain certification for taking part in Bloomberg Core Concepts training in your first year, and to participate in a live trading simulation in your third year.
  • Learn from highly qualified and experienced professional accountants and world-renowned academic researchers.
  • Graduate with eligibility to gain full Chartered Banker status from the Chartered Banker Institute, distinguishing you as a highly qualified professional with detailed knowledge of the modern banking sector and its ethical and professional requirements.

 

Specialist Facilities:

  • At Leeds University Business School, you’ll have access to specialist facilities including state-of-the-art lecture theatres, collaborative learning and teaching spaces with the latest interactive technology and modern study spaces with dedicated computer clusters. Read more about our Business School facilities.
  • As a banking and finance student, you will also have use our state-of-the-art Bloomberg Trading Rooms, enabling you to engage with practical applications of both finance and investment decision-making.

 

Course Details:

Our degrees have a modular structure. This means that the theoretical and applied content within our compulsory modules provide you with the core knowledge and skills that you need.?

Alongside these compulsory modules, you’ll also have the opportunity to shape your course through optional, pathway and discovery modules. They’re a great way to tailor your study around your interests or career aspirations and help you stand out in a competitive graduate job market.?

 

  • Optional modules are related to the field of banking and finance enabling you to deepen your knowledge and skills within this area.?
  • Pathways are optional modules themed around key business disciplines, designed to complement your core knowledge and skills in banking and finance and broaden your expertise. Pathway modules are available in your second and final year. You’re able to study modules from only one pathway during each year, with the opportunity to continue, choose a different pathway* or return your focus to optional banking and finance modules as you progress between years.?
  • Discovery modules give you?opportunities to expand?your intellectual horizons outside your subject area.?They are categorised into 10 Discovery Themes ranging from arts to sciences, and from theory to practice.??

 

Whether you choose optional, pathway or discovery modules, you’ll be shaping your course to suit your personal interests and career aspirations. In all years, you will be able to choose from a selection of modules that reflect the research interests and expertise of staff at Leeds.

 

Course Structure:

  • Year 1
  • Compulsory modules
  • Foundations of Finance (20 credits)
  • Academic and Professional Development for Studies in Finance (20 credits)
  • Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B (10 credits)
  • Introduction to Financial Accounting (10 credits)
  • Foundations of Banking (10 credits)
  • Economic Theory and Applications for Finance (20 credits)
  • Optional modules
  • Introduction to Management Accounting (10 credits)
  • Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A (10 credits)
  • Year 2
  • Compulsory modules
  • Corporate Finance (20 credits)
  • Financial Econometrics (10 credits)
  • Banks and Banking Systems (10 credits)
  • Commercial Banking (10 credits)
  • Commercial Skills for Finance Professionals (10 credits)
  • Intermediate Financial Accounting (20 credits)
  • Optional modules
  • From Study to Work (10 credits)
  • Applied Credit Analytics (10 credits)
  • Intermediate Management Accounting (20 credits)
  • Business and the Legal Environment (20 credits)
  • Pathway modules
  • Enterprise and Innovation pathway
  • Leading and Managing Small Business (10 credits)
  • Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice (10 credits)
  • Managing Innovation in Business (10 credits)
  • New Enterprise Planning (20 credits)
  • Ethics and Sustainability pathway
  • Leadership Ethics (10 credits)
  • Contemporary Industrial Relations (10 credits)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (10 credits)
  • Economics pathway
  • Mathematics for Business and Economics 2 (10 credits)
  • Business Economics (10 credits)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (10 credits)
  • Intermediate Macro Economics (10 credits)
  • Business Management pathway
  • Leading and Managing Small Business (10 credits)
  • People in Organisation (10 credits)
  • How Managers Make Decisions (10 credits)
  • Evidence Based Consultancy (10 credits)
  • Final year
  • Compulsory modules
  • Critical Cases for Banking and Finance (20 credits)
  • Investment Banking (10 credits)
  • Risk Management in Banking (10 credits)
  • International Banking and Finance (10 credits)
  • Advanced Finance (10 credits)
  • Dissertation for Accounting, Banking and Finance (40 credits) OR Financial Analysis (40 credits)
  • Optional modules
  • Private Equity (10 credits)
  • Forensic Accounting and Finance (10 credits)
  • Behavioural Finance (10 credits)
  • Financial Derivatives (10 credits)
  • Advanced Financial Accounting (10 credits)
  • International Business Finance (10 credits)
  • Professional Portfolio Management (10 credits)
  • Principles of Taxation (20 credits)
  • Pathway modules
  • Enterprise and Innovation pathway
  • Enterprise Consultancy (20 credits)
  • Critical Perspectives in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
  • Innovation Thinking and Practice (10 credits)
  • Ethics and Sustainability pathway
  • Gender and Equality and Work in Comparative Perspectives (20 credits)
  • Diversity Management (20 credits)
  • Economics pathway
  • Advanced Microeconomics (10 credits)
  • Advanced Macro Economics (10 credits)
  • Environmental Economics (10 credits)
  • Modern Theories of Money and Monetary Policy (10 credits)
  • Political Economics of Work (10 credits)
  • Economics of Business and Corporate Strategy (20 credits)
  • Business Management pathway
  • Enterprise Consultancy (20 credits)
  • Strategic Management (20 credits)
  • International Business Management (20 credits)
  • Leadership in Organisations (10 credits)

 

Entry Requirements:

  • A-level: AAA
  • GCSE: 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or higher including Mathematics grade A/7 and English Language grade B/6 or equivalent, or an appropriate English language qualification.* *If you have a B/6 in GCSE English Literature we will accept a Grade B/5 or C/4 in GCSE English Language.
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    University of Leeds Woodhouse Lane Leeds LS2 9JT, Leeds

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