Economics, Finance and Banking

This is a Connected Degree
Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.

Overview

Prepare for a career in the well-paid and fast-moving sectors of banking, finance and risk management with this BSc Economics, Finance and Banking degree.

Economics is the study of how societies produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Finance examines financial systems and how money moves around, including banks, loans and investments.

With this degree you'll learn all the core economic theory you need to be an economist, using real, topical data from organisations such as HSBC, Barclays, the Bank of England and the UK Government's annual budget. You'll also learn how finance systems work, including:

- futures, forwards, swaps, and options markets

- monetary policy and financial regulation

- portfolio management and stock selection

- contemporary issues in finance and banking

- behavioural finance and the psychology of investment

After your second year you can apply this knowledge on an optional paid placement. Previous students have worked at places like Lloyds Bank, Santander and BMW.

Course highlights
- Benefit from expert teaching informed by our academics' close relationships with organisations such as the Bank of England and the Office for National Statistics

- Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite

- Be employment-ready by using the same software (EViews and STATA) and the same financial databases (Eikon and S&P Global IQ) as professional economists

- See economics and finance from a different angle by spending a year abroad at a partner university in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe or the Far East

- Get support to set up your own business from our Entrepreneurs in Residence programme

- Learn a foreign language as part of your degree

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). This means that you won't have to take some of the CIMA exams if you want to be CIMA certified after you graduate. You'll have completed part of your professional qualification by doing this degree. Find out more about these exceptions on the CIMA website.

Careers and opportunities
The skills you learn on this degree are in high demand in the public and private sectors.

When you complete the course, you'll be prepared for work in areas such as commercial and investment banking, tax consultancy and risk management. Through your choice of optional modules it's also possible to lay a good foundation for further study for accountancy exams through this degree.

Graduates of this course have gone on to jobs as:

- Banker

- Business analyst

- Project manager

- Associate financial data analyst

- Account analyst

- Trainee accountant

- Quantitative researcher - machine learning/ AI

- Treasury solutions executive

- Financial recruitment

Graduates of this course have gone on to work for companies such as:

- Bank of Ireland

- State Street Bank & Trust

- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

- Bank of East Asia

- Royal Bank of Scotland

- Barclays

- Santander UK

- Accenture PLC

- S & P Global (data insights)

- Fujitsu (global IT)

You'll get careers support throughout your studies and for 5 years after you graduate.