Open Day

Finance and Investment BSc(Hons)

Rob HaywardCourse Leader

Brighton Business School

Professional, dedicated teaching and administrative teams

Wide mix of student nationalities and backgrounds

Good research ranking inbusiness and management

40 years’ experience of runningbusiness courses

Most staff worked in industry before joining

Finance and Investment BSc(Hons)

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

Economics Corporate Analysis

Optional industrial placement (48 weeks)

Investment Management

Finance Finance & Risk Management

Advanced Financial Risk Management

Financial Accounting

International Financial Economics

Economic and Legal Aspects of Financial Regs

Monetary Economics

Applied Financial Techniques (Dealing Room)

Financial and employment skills

Financial Case Study

Option 1

Professional Practice

Option 2

The options

Financial Risk Management

Business Project (placement only)

Financial Dissertation

Game Theory in Economics and Finance

Behavioural Finance

Financial Econometrics

International Finance

Corporate Strategy

Placement companies

Work placements add to your CV and many students return to university for their final year with firm job offers.

Goldman SachsSwiss ReAmexMicrosoftHewlett PackardUBSIBMFindessa

Career focussed

Careers Service in regular contact with over 1,800 businesses and organisations

Finance and Accounting Forum discusses routes into the sector and what it is really like to work within it

Destinations of leavers

Typical employers of our graduates include:ICE Exchange BarclaysKnight CapitalKBW (Keefe, Bruyettte & Woods)McKinsey & coRimes technologiesIFDSTullett Prebon

• 100% ‘Course is intellectually stimulating’

• 85% ‘Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching’

• 92% ‘As a result of the course I feel confident about tacking unfamiliar problems’

• 69% ‘the course has helped me present myself with confidence’

Brighton students reach final of University Trading Challenge

• 100% ‘Course is intellectually stimulating’

• 85% ‘Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching’

• 92% ‘As a result of the course I feel confident about tacking unfamiliar problems’

• 69% ‘the course has helped me present myself with confidence’

Investment and Finance Society organise guest speakers, challenges and field trips

• 100% ‘Course is intellectually stimulating’

• 85% ‘Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching’

• 92% ‘As a result of the course I feel confident about tacking unfamiliar problems’

• 69% ‘the course has helped me present myself with confidence’

Real-time trading room enables you to apply your skills to real markets and real data

• 100% ‘Course is intellectually stimulating’

• 85% ‘Staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching’

• 92% ‘As a result of the course I feel confident about tacking unfamiliar problems’

• 69% ‘the course has helped me present myself with confidence’

Working with experts from industry

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