Program Overview

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BSc Management (Accounting & Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience

Overview

Course description

Our flexible management courses share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects. With a wide range of course units to choose from, you really can shape your own degree.

BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience will suit you if you are interested in how organisations finance their activities and how they keep track of what happens to their money - and want to include a work placement in your penultimate year.

To graduate with BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience, you need to have studied at least 50 credits of second-year courses and at least 60 credits of final-year courses (half of your studies) from the accounting and finance subject area as well as successfully completing a work placement.

Since the Management and Management (Specialism) degrees are identical in the first year, transfer between them is straightforward, so you should apply for only one of them.

Entry requirements

A-level

• AAA
• We will consider the subjects you have taken in addition to your individual grades. Due to the popularity of our courses we may prioritise applicants based on the number of preferred subjects that they are studying. We may also take into consideration the combination of subjects taken.
• Typical contextual A-level offer: ABB
• UK refugee/care-experienced offer: BBB
• Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL

GCSE/IGCSE

• Applicants must demonstrate a broad general education including acceptable levels of Literacy and Numeracy, equivalent to at least Grade 6 or B in GCSE/IGCSE English Language and Mathematics.
• GCSE/IGCSE English Literature will not be accepted in lieu of GCSE/IGCSE English Language.

Other entry requirements

• Scottish Advanced Highers are normally required in one of the following combinations:
  • Three Advanced Highers AAA
  • or
  • Two Advanced Highers AA, plus two additional Highers AA
• Welsh Baccalaureate: We welcome and recognise the value of the Baccalaureate Wales and accept the Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales (replacing the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate from September 2023)
• Foundation year: The University recognises a number of foundation programmes as suitable for entry to this undergraduate programme.
• Pearson BTEC qualifications: We consider the National Extended Diploma for entry provided it is in a subject relevant to the chosen course.
• OCR Cambridge Technical qualifications: We consider the Technical Extended Diploma for entry provided it is in a subject relevant to the chosen course.
• Access to HE Diploma: We require a QAA-recognised Access to HE Diploma (a minimum of 60 credits overall with at least 45 at Level 3), with merit or distinction in a subject area relevant to the chosen course.
• T Level: We do not accept T Levels as entry onto this programme.
• Extended Project Qualification (EPQ): The University recognises the benefits of the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and the opportunities it provides for applicants to develop independent study and research skills.

Fees and funding

Fees

• Fees for entry in 2026 have not yet been set. For entry in 2025 the tuition fees were £9,535 per annum for home students, and are expected to increase slightly for 2026 entry.
• You will receive a significant tuition fee discount for the placement year. UK students with a household income of up to £35,000 are also eligible to receive a cash bursary worth up to £2,000.

Additional expenses

• All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

Scholarships/sponsorships

• The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England.
• Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students. These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study.
• The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification).

Application and selection

How to apply

• Apply through UCAS.

Advice to applicants

• Mitigating circumstances may be personal or family illness, other family circumstances, change of teachers during a course, problems with school facilities or an unusual curriculum followed by your school or college.
• We recommend that information on mitigating circumstances that have affected or are likely to affect your academic performance will be included in the referee's report.

Interview requirements

• We do not as a rule interview applicants. However, we reserve the right to interview candidates with non-standard backgrounds, eg. Mature students and students aged under 17.

Returning to education

• The University encourages applications from applicants returning to education after employment or other experience.

Overseas (non-UK) applicants

• International applicants will be assessed against the standard entry criteria of the course to which they are applying.

Deferrals

• Applications for deferred entry are considered equally to other applications up to the point of confirmation.

Course details

Course description

• Our flexible management courses share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects.
• With a wide range of course units to choose from, you really can shape your own degree.

Aims

• This course aims to promote critical awareness of the merits and complexities of management and to instil an appreciation of the association between theory and practice.
• It aims to introduce you to important new developments in the field of management and to enable you to develop appropriate practical and transferable skills.

Special features

• Study a broad-based management degree whilst specialising in accounting and finance
• Your chosen specialism will be reflected in your final degree title - BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance)
• Don't want to specialise? Graduate with BSc (Hons) Management
• Selected course units grant exemptions from professional exams
• Includes a work placement year in your penultimate year of study

Teaching and learning

• You will normally study four or five course units per semester.
• Each week there are on average two hours of lectures for each course unit and a one-hour small group teaching in alternate weeks, although this varies slightly, depending on course choices.
• You are expected to double this in private study.

Coursework and assessment

• Essays, multiple choice tests, project reports and presentations, in-class tests, and weekly assignments constitute the coursework component of assessment, although the nature and proportion of coursework varies across course units.
• The remainder of assessment is by unseen examination.

Course unit details

• You take courses totalling 360 credits over the duration of your studies to graduate with Honours (120 credits in each year of study).
• This includes a mixture of 10 and 20-credit units.

Course content for year 1

• Your first year will give you a good grounding in accounting, finance, management, work psychology, marketing, sociology and economics.
• This will help you to make more informed choices about optional course units in later years.
• You will study 120 credits in total.

Course content for year 2

• Your second year course structure is determined by whether you select a specialism or prefer to continue to study a broad range of topics.
• If you decide to specialise you will study 50 credits of core course units relating to your chosen specialism and 70 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits.
• Additional core course units in law must be taken by Accounting and Finance specialists.

Course content for year 3

• If you successfully apply for a work placement, this will take place between your second and final year.
• You will put theory into practice, develop transferable skills, and gain an insight into your chosen profession.

Course content for year 4

• In your final year, you will choose at least 60 credits of final-year options from your chosen specialist area.
• You will then select an additional 60 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits.

Careers

Career opportunities

• The University has its own dedicated Careers Service that you would have full access to as a student and for two years after you graduate.
• At Manchester you will have access to a number of opportunities to help boost your employability.

What jobs do our Management graduates go into?

• Examples of jobs recent graduates have gone onto include: audit graduate, HR graduate analyst, internet consultant and management trainee.
• Who employs them? A wide range of companies including: Balfour Beatty, Deutsche Bank, KPMG, Microsoft and Tesco.

What about further study?

• Graduates have gone onto further study in business, economics, enterprise and branding at institutions across the UK and internationally, including London Business School, the University of Jiao Tong and the University of Lausanne.

Regulated by the Office for Students

• The University of Manchester is regulated by the Office for Students (OfS).
• The OfS aims to help students succeed in Higher Education by ensuring they receive excellent information and guidance, get high quality education that prepares them for the future and by protecting their interests.