BSc Mathematics with Finance and Investment Banking with a Placement Year
Program Overview
The BSc Mathematics with Finance and Investment Banking with a Placement Year equips students with a comprehensive mathematical foundation, practical finance experience, and coding skills. The program covers a wide range of topics, including statistics, foreign exchange, and live market simulations. Students also have the opportunity to pursue optional modules in areas such as sustainable finance and fintech. The degree prepares graduates for careers in financial markets, investment banking, and other finance-related fields.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Expand your mathematical knowledge, gain practical experience, and help prepare yourself for a professional career on our BSc Mathematics with Finance and Investment Banking with a Placement Year course. Study a wide range of topics from statistics to foreign exchange and experience the thrill of live markets. This flexible degree will help you to develop your skills - including how to code.
Outline:
Year 1
- Calculus
- Foundations of Mathematics
- Linear Algebra
- Probability and Statistics
- Introductory Finance / Trading Simulation I
- Introductory Securities and Markets
Year 2
- Financial Modelling
- Mathematical Modelling and Professional Skills
- Differential Equations
- Numerical Analysis I
- Real Analysis I
- Trends in Finance (Optional)
- Sustainable Finance (Optional)
- Fx and International Debt Markets (Optional)
Year 3
- Derivative Securities
- Portfolio of Projects
- Private Equity and Venture Capital (Optional)
- Finance and Occupational Pensions (Optional)
- Fintech and Cryptocurrencies (Optional)
- Asymptotic Methods (Optional)
- Applied Stochastic Processes (Optional)
- Partial Differential Equation and Applications (Optional)
- Numerical Analysis II (Optional)
- Summer Placement (Optional)
- Linear Models and Data Analysis (Optional)
Year 4
Teaching:
Taught by expert staff with extensive teaching and research experience, you’ll work collaboratively across a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. You will study mathematics for approximately two thirds of the course and our modules are informed by our world-leading research in areas such as:
- calculus
- numerical analysis
- linear algebra
- differential equations
- statistics. Your second year will feature a skills module, designed to improve your transferrable skills and enhance your employability. In your final year, you will undertake some mathematics and/or statistics project work.
Careers:
Jobs in the financial markets, investment banking, and securities are generally well paid and highly sought-after. Your mathematical knowledge combined with coding, investment and presentation skills will make you highly desirable to a range of employers. This degree provides a direct route into many areas including accounting and professional services, banking, consultancy, finance, human resources, IT, investment banking, marketing, operations, and general management.
Other:
- Ranked in the top 25 in the UK for Accounting and Finance (23rd in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2024).
- 98% of our research is world leading or internationally excellent and 100% of our research impact has been classed outstanding or very considerable (REF 2021, combining 4 and 3 submissions – Mathematical Sciences)
- This course meets the educational requirements of the Chartered Mathematician designation, awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, when followed by subsequent training and experience in employment in order to obtain equivalent competences to those specified by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for taught master's degrees.
New UK/Republic of Ireland students:
£9,250
New international students:
£27.650