BSc Accounting and Finance with Professional Placement

This four-year course offers a fully integrated degree that combines accounting and finance subjects. This course ‘with professional placement’ allows you to spend your third year gaining experience in the industry. During your placement year, you will undertake a paid placement within the accounting function of a large organisation or within an accountancy firm. Previously, students have secured roles at PwC, Grant Thornton, Hazlewoods, and Milsted Langdon.Places on the course are allocated on merit depending on first-year examination results and an offer of employment for your placement from a qualifying employer. You can work towards your professional accreditation with ICAEW during your placement year.On the whole, this course enables you to pursue a career in the accounting profession with the benefit of a year in the industry. The course provides access to subjects accredited by professional accountancy bodies, including the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Alternatively, you may pursue a career in finance or investment banking through our finance-oriented units.You can also benefit from a range of specialist employability services from the faculty’s Professional Liaison Network.Previous graduates have gone on to work for the Bank of England, JP Morgan, UBS, PwC, KPMG, EY, Microsoft, IBM and many other blue-chip organisations.