Business & Finance (Placement Year) BA (Hons)

University of Worcester

Overview

Set yourself up for a future career in the well-paid finance sector by developing competence in financial and general management. This course gives you access to regular coaching, specialist academic staff, business leaders, and the professional financial services network, including exemptions from ACCA, ICAEW, CIMA, CIPFA and Associate Membership of the IFA.

You’ll gain an insight into general management and access a wide range of optional modules that complement your development as a specialist in financial management. Subject expertise in finance, alongside a grounding in contemporary business issues (such as globalisation, global trade, governance and sustainability), signal that you are a numerate, astute and commercially focused graduate.

Active experience through applied projects, placements and internships will enable you to demonstrate the business knowledge, commercial acumen and professional skills valued by employers. You can also experience international cultures and develop a global mind-set through options to work and study abroad.

Key features

• Gain exemptions (as attached handbook) from ACCA, ICAEW, CIMA and CIPFA and Associate Membership of the IFA and Chartered Management Institute
• Enhance your employability through internships, consultancy projects, a one-year paid placement and integrated coaching from experienced business leaders
• Develop your own business idea through the Business School's Incubator
• Work with qualified finance specialists who have extensive experience of management (including with KPMG, Grant Thornton and HM Treasury), consultancy or running their own business
• Compete for the Hereford & Worcester Chamber of Commerce prize for 'Outstanding Performance in Accountancy & Finance

Learn more about the course at our Open Days

Visiting us is the best way to get a feel for student life at the University of Worcester. You'll find out more about the course at our subject specific talks, and have the opportunity speak to staff, students and recent graduates about what it’s really like to study at Worcester.