Finance and Economics : BSc Hons : NL31
Bachelor's degree
In Lancaster
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Lancaster
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
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Taught in the world-class Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), our three-year joint honours Finance and Economics degree provides an excellent academic foundation for anyone interested in a career in management and finance.
Your Finance studies cover capital markets, investment decision-making and option pricing. Your degree will also require you to study financial statement analysis. In Economics, you will study micro-economics at an individual and market level and focus on national economies at the macro-economic level. You will also take a rigorous look at wider contemporary economic issues, such as the crisis in banking, failures in corporate governance, fairness in organisations, CEO salaries and incentives in organisations.
You’ll begin your degree with courses including an Introduction to Accounting and Finance and Principles of Economics. In your second year, you’ll study subjects such as Advanced Principles of Finance; Micro and Macro Economics, and Financial Statement of Analysis. You’ll complete your degree with modules including Corporate Finance, International Financial Management, Investments, Monetary Economics and International Economics.
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About this course
The skills gained from the two areas of your degree are highly desirable to employers, both within the finance industry and elsewhere.
Lancaster’s Finance and Economics graduates are able to capitalise on the analytical skills developed during their degree and many find themselves in a good position to win training contracts with major professional accounting firms; find employment within financial institutions and banks, or take up a variety of other posts within various industries.
Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability awareness, career development, campus community and social development.
A Level AAB
GCSE Mathematics grade B or 6, English Language grade C or 4
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.
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Subjects
- Corporate Finance
- Macroeconomics
- Economics
- Finance
- Financial
- Employability
- Accounting and Finance
- Financial Training
- Finance Economics
- Accounting
Course programme
Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.
Year 1Core
- Career and Employability I
- Introduction to Accounting and Finance
- Principles of Economics A
- Quantitative Methods for Economics
Core
- Advanced Principles of Finance
- Career and Employability II
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Intermediate Macroeconomics I
- Intermediate Microeconomics I
- Introduction to Econometrics
- Mathematics for Economics
- Principles of Finance
Optional
- Accounting Information Systems and Auditing
- Management Accounting for Business Decisions
- Principles of Financial Accounting
Core
- Career and Employability III
Optional
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Applied Economics
- Applied Macroeconomics
- Corporate Finance
- Development Economics
- Dissertation Module
- Econometrics
- Economic Policy
- Financial Markets
- Game Theory
- Health Economics
- Industrial Organisation
- International Business
- International Financial and Risk Management
- International Trade
- Investments
- Labour Economics
- Mathematical Economics
- Monetary Macroeconomics
- Professional Financial Analysis
- Public Economics
- Quantitative Finance
- Sports Economics
- Using Financial Data Platforms
Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.
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Finance and Economics : BSc Hons : NL31