Financial Economics (Including Foundation Year) BA (Hons)

Open to UK and EU students only, our BA Financial Economics (including foundation year) is suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for an undergraduate course. This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of undergraduate study. Our compulsory English language and academic skills module supplements your academic subjects. Financial crisis. Unemployment. Immigration. Market competition. Economics helps us shape the present and improve our future. You apply the core principles of economics to the study of banks and other financial institutions, financial markets (such as the stock exchange) and financial instruments. You study all aspects of economics and mathematics and explore quantitative research methods. In your second year you take an optional module from across the social sciences. During your third year, you develop your knowledge in economics and finance and can take mathematics modules. In your final year you study Economic Analysis of Asset Prices, Economics of Bond and Derivatives Markets and International Money and Finance.