Successful completion of a finance course from Coventry University, with employability skills modules embedded in each year of study, could lead to a potential future career in investment banking or City trading.

This specialist course aims to provide you with the essential knowledge required to succeed in today’s highly competitive and dynamic world of finance. Finance BSc (Hons) is formally recognised by the Chartered Financial Analyst Society UK as having significant alignment with the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and, upon successful completion, it can also provide certain exemptions from exams set by professional financial bodies, such as the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and the Institute of

Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). Additional costs and requirements apply - please see the Accreditation and Professional Recognition and Exemptions sections for further detail.

You’ll explore the complexities and challenges facing today’s world financial markets, examining critical issues like the impact of Brexit on financial markets (both UK and international), corporate governance issues, investment strategies in the view of global systemic risks and others, topics that are pertinent to our volatile global environment.

Coventry University currently has excellent links with national and international employers, like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young, IBM and Jaguar Land Rover. Our teaching is grounded in the corporate world, using real-life international case studies and providing a range of exciting work placement options.

Our past graduates have progressed to careers across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, from banking, accounting and finance to manufacturing and sales.