Finance

The Finance degree course from Lancaster University provides a solid foundation in essential financial principles while allowing you to tailor your studies through a wide selection of optional modules.

You will build expertise in core areas such as financial data analytics, corporate finance, investment analysis and financial markets, while gaining advanced insights into specialised areas such as AI and machine learning, FinTech, and sustainable finance.

You will also benefit from dedicated CFA training, personalised career coaching, and hands-on experience with industry-standard platforms such as Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace and Datastream, along with programming tools like Python and R. This unique combination of core knowledge and customisable learning ensures that you graduate with both breadth and depth, making you highly adaptable and competitive in the global financial job market.

Career opportunities:

The broad nature of the core and optional modules of this program allows you to pivot in several different ways. You could choose well-known sectors such as investment banking and asset management, or explore less well-known sectors such as financial consultancy, investment consultancy, wealth management, financial planning, interdealer brokers, insurance, and vendors. The nature of the program also means you could take either an analysis role or a more client-facing function and everything in between.

Companies that have recruited our graduates in recent years include:

• Bangkok Bank

• Bank of China

• BNP Paribas

• Citi

• Deloitte

• Deutsche Bank

• EY

• Grant Thornton

• HSBC

• JPMorgan Chase

• KPMG

• PwC

• Standard Chartered

• UBS

To give you additional industry-specific job-hunting skills, we have partnered with a financial markets specialist who has worked at several leading investment banks and financial technology firms. As a financial careers coach, his role is to help you explore opportunities within the sector, providing a clear understanding of the skills required and, crucially, an insider’s perspective on what employers are looking for. To help you stand out in a highly competitive market, he offers guidance on writing CVs and cover letters tailored to the financial industry, developing effective interview techniques, and performing well at assessment centres.

Courses include:

• Financial Markets

• Accounting

• Quantitative Methods

• Quantitative Methods for Finance

• Advanced Corporate Finance

• Advanced Investment Management

• Financial Econometrics

• Fixed Income Markets